More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 38
_" Then they went upstairs and into the bedroom, and the big Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?" and the middling Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?" and the little Bear said, "_Who's been sleeping in my bed?--and see here he is!
Who acts: Bears, big Bear, middling Bear, little Bear, BEEN · What happens: go, say, sleep, see, be · To what, where: BED · 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 | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 3 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bedroom | cc |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 bedroom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bedroom | det |
| 10 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | conj |
| 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 | 5 went | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 SLEEPING | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 SLEEPING | punct |
| 19 | WHO | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 SLEEPING | nsubj |
| 20 | 'S | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 SLEEPING | aux |
| 21 | BEEN | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 SLEEPING | aux |
| 22 | SLEEPING | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 23 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 25 BED | case |
| 24 | MY | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 BED | nmod:poss |
| 25 | BED | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 SLEEPING | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 SLEEPING | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 SLEEPING | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Bear | det |
| 30 | middling | middling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Bear | compound |
| 31 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 said | nsubj |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 SLEEPING | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 SLEEPING | punct |
| 35 | WHO | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 SLEEPING | nsubj |
| 36 | 'S | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 SLEEPING | aux |
| 37 | BEEN | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 SLEEPING | aux |
| 38 | SLEEPING | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 said | ccomp |
| 39 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 41 BED | case |
| 40 | MY | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 BED | nmod:poss |
| 41 | BED | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 SLEEPING | obl |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 38 SLEEPING | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 SLEEPING | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 said | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Bear | det |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Bear | amod |
| 47 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 said | nsubj |
| 48 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 said | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 sleeping | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 sleeping | punct |
| 51 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 55 sleeping | punct |
| 52 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 sleeping | nsubj |
| 53 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 sleeping | aux |
| 54 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 55 sleeping | aux |
| 55 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 said | ccomp |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 bed | case |
| 57 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 bed | nmod:poss |
| 58 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 sleeping | obl |
| 59 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 55 sleeping | punct |
| 60 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 62 see | punct |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 see | cc |
| 62 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | conj |
| 63 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 62 see | advmod |
| 64 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 is | nsubj |
| 65 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 62 see | ccomp |
| 66 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | Bears = bear | then | upstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the big Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sleep | present · progressive | MY BED | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the middling Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sleep | present · progressive | MY BED | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the little Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | sleep | present · progressive | my bed | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||||
| 8 | see | infinitive | the big Bear not said here | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | be | present | BEEN | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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