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title: Then he cried in terror: “Dear Mr. Bear, spare me! — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he cried in terror: “Dear Mr. Bear, spare me! Who acts: growl. 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 87

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Then he cried in terror: “Dear Mr. Bear, spare me!

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**Who acts:** growl · **What happens:** cry, spare · **To what, where:** Dear Mr. Bear, terror, growl · **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 (growl), 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:pg503:36:87
# text = Then he cried in terror: “Dear Mr. Bear, spare me!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | growl | Dear Mr. Bear |  | terror | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location |
| 2 | **spare** *in a quote* | infinitive | growl *not said here* | growl |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset |

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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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