The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 10
So the little old woman opened the door and went in; and well pleased she was when she saw the porridge on the table.
Who acts: little old woman, woman · What happens: open, go in, be · To what, where: door, table
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Three Bears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little old woman, woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | nsubj |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleased | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pleased | cc |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 pleased | advmod |
| 15 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 opened | advcl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | cop |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleased | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 porridge | det |
| 22 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 table | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 table | det |
| 25 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the little old woman | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in | past | the little old woman not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | woman | the table | see property | tree rules |
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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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