More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 36
And after a time the Bears came home, and when they got into the hall the big Bear went to his chair and said, "WHO'S BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR?" and the middling Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR?" and the little Bear said, "_Who's been sitting in my chair and has broken it all to pieces?
Who acts: Bears, big Bear, middling Bear, little Bear · What happens: come, get, go, say, sit, break · To what, where: hall, chair, room · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bears, big Bear, middling Bear, little Bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bears | det |
| 6 | Bears | Bear | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 got | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | advcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Bear | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Bear | amod |
| 19 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 chair | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 chair | nmod:poss |
| 23 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 SITTING | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 SITTING | punct |
| 28 | WHO | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 SITTING | nsubj |
| 29 | 'S | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 SITTING | aux |
| 30 | BEEN | BEEN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 SITTING | nsubj |
| 31 | SITTING | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 said | ccomp |
| 32 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 34 CHAIR | case |
| 33 | MY | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 CHAIR | nmod:poss |
| 34 | CHAIR | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 SITTING | obl |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 31 SITTING | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 SITTING | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 said | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Bear | det |
| 39 | middling | middling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Bear | compound |
| 40 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 said | nsubj |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 SITTING | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 SITTING | punct |
| 44 | WHO | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 SITTING | nsubj |
| 45 | 'S | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 SITTING | aux |
| 46 | BEEN | BEEN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 SITTING | nsubj |
| 47 | SITTING | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 said | ccomp |
| 48 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 50 CHAIR | case |
| 49 | MY | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 CHAIR | nmod:poss |
| 50 | CHAIR | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 SITTING | obl |
| 51 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 47 SITTING | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 SITTING | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 said | cc |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 Bear | det |
| 55 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 Bear | amod |
| 56 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 said | nsubj |
| 57 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 said | conj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 sitting | punct |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 64 sitting | punct |
| 60 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 64 sitting | punct |
| 61 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 64 sitting | nsubj |
| 62 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 64 sitting | aux |
| 63 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 64 sitting | aux |
| 64 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 57 said | ccomp |
| 65 | in | in | ADP | _ | 67 chair | case |
| 66 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 67 chair | nmod:poss |
| 67 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 sitting | obl |
| 68 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 70 broken | cc |
| 69 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 70 broken | aux |
| 70 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 64 sitting | conj |
| 71 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 70 broken | obj |
| 72 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 71 it | det |
| 73 | to | to | ADP | _ | 74 pieces | case |
| 74 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 70 broken | obl |
| 75 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Bears | time | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | past | Bears = bear | the hall | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hall=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the big Bear | Scrapefoot's chair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chair=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | the big Bear not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sit in a quote | present · progressive | MY CHAIR | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | |||||
| 6 | say speech: ask | past | the middling Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | sit in a quote | present · progressive | MY CHAIR | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | |||||
| 8 | say speech: ask | past | the little Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | sit in a quote | present · progressive | my chair | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | |||||
| 10 | break in a quote | present · perfect | room | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to piece=Result |
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.
Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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