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title: Then in the dread of his heart he cried: ‘Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then in the dread of his heart he cried: ‘Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I will give you all my treasures; look, the beautiful jewels lying there! Who acts: bear, I, beautiful jewels, my. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 91

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Then in the dread of his heart he cried: ‘Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I will give you all my treasures; look, the beautiful jewels lying there!

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**Who acts:** bear, I, beautiful jewels, my · **What happens:** cry, spare, give, look, lie, dread · **To what, where:** Dear Mr Bear, dread, me, treasures, you, beautiful jewels

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, I, beautiful jewels, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:60:91
# text = Then in the dread of his heart he cried: ‘Dear Mr Bear, spare me, I will give you all my treasures; look, the beautiful jewels lying there!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | bear | Dear Mr Bear |  | the dread of bear's heart | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dread=Location |
| 2 | **spare** | infinitive | bear *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset |
| 3 | **give** | future | I | my treasures | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient treasure=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the beautiful jewels |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | the beautiful jewels *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **dread** |  |  | bear's heart |  |  |  |  | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **treasure** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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