More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 37

_" And then they went to have their milk, and the big Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN DRINKING MY MILK?" and the middling Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN DRINKING MY MILK?" and the little Bear said, "_Who's been drinking my milk and has drunk it all up?

Who acts: Bears, big Bear, middling Bear, little Bear · What happens: go, have, say, drink, drink up · To what, where: milk · 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 _	punct
3	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 went	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	xcomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 milk	nmod:poss
10	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Bear	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Bear	amod
15	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 DRINKING	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 DRINKING	punct
19	WHO	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 DRINKING	nsubj
20	'S	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 DRINKING	aux
21	BEEN	been	X	_	22 DRINKING	aux
22	DRINKING	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
23	MY	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 MILK	nmod:poss
24	MILK	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 DRINKING	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 DRINKING	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 DRINKING	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Bear	det
29	middling	middling	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Bear	compound
30	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 DRINKING	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 DRINKING	punct
34	WHO	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 DRINKING	nsubj
35	'S	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 DRINKING	aux
36	BEEN	been	X	_	37 DRINKING	aux
37	DRINKING	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 said	ccomp
38	MY	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 MILK	nmod:poss
39	MILK	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 DRINKING	obj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	37 DRINKING	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 DRINKING	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 said	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Bear	det
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Bear	amod
45	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 said	nsubj
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 drinking	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 drinking	punct
49	_	_	PUNCT	_	53 drinking	punct
50	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 drinking	nsubj
51	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 drinking	aux
52	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 drinking	aux
53	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 said	ccomp
54	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 milk	nmod:poss
55	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 drinking	obj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 drunk	cc
57	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 drunk	aux
58	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 drinking	conj
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 drunk	obj
60	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 it	det
61	up	up	ADP	_	58 drunk	compound:prt
62	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go in a quote	past	Bears = bear		then	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	to-infinitive	Bears = bear not said here	Bears's milk		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the big Bear			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drink	present		MY MILK		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the middling Bear			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	drink	present		MY MILK		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
7	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the little Bear			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	drink	present · progressive		my milk		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
9	drink up	present · perfect		milk		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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