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title: Then she called out: “Snow-white and Rose-red, come out; the bear wi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she called out: “Snow-white and Rose-red, come out; the bear will do you no harm; he is a good, honest creature.” Who acts: bear, white. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 23

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Then she called out: “Snow-white and Rose-red, come out; the bear will do you no harm; he is a good, honest creature.”

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**Who acts:** bear, white · **What happens:** call out, come out, do, be · **To what, where:** bear, you, good honest creature · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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, white), 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:pg503:36:23
# text = Then she called out: “Snow-white and Rose-red, come out; the bear will do you no harm; he is a good, honest creature.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | bear |  |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | future | bear *not said here* | the bear | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | white | a good honest creature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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