The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 11

If she had been a good little old woman she would have waited till the bears came home, and then, perhaps, they would have asked her to breakfast; for they were good bears--a little rough or so, as the manner of bears is, but for all that very good-natured and hospitable.

Who acts: woman, good little old woman, Bears, manner · What happens: be, wait, come, ask · To what, where: good little old woman, woman

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 (woman, good little old woman, Bears, manner), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 woman	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 woman	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woman	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 woman	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 waited	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 waited	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 waited	aux
13	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 woman	acl:relcl
14	till	till	ADP	_	16 bears	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bears	det
16	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 waited	obl
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 asked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 asked	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 asked	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 perhaps	punct
23	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	28 asked	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 perhaps	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 asked	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 asked	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 asked	aux
28	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 came	parataxis
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 asked	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 breakfast	case
31	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 asked	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 bears	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 bears	case
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bears	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 bears	cop
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bears	amod
37	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	parataxis
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 rough	punct
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 little	det
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 rough	obl:unmarked
41	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bears	parataxis
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 so	cc
43	so	so	ADV	_	41 rough	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 is	punct
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 is	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 manner	det
47	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 is	nsubj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 bears	case
49	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 manner	nmod
50	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 came	parataxis
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 natured	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 natured	cc
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 all	case
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 natured	nsubj
55	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 all	obj
56	very	very	ADV	_	57 good	advmod
57	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 all	amod
58	-	-	PUNCT	_	57 good	punct
59	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 came	parataxis
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 hospitable	cc
61	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 natured	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	woman	a good little old woman				tree rules
2	wait	would · perfect	woman	a good little old woman not said here		till the bears		tree rules
3	come	past	a good little old woman				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	would · perfect	Bears = bear		woman	then	to breakfast; perhaps property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	is	past	Bears = bear				for good bears	tree rules
6	be	present	the manner of bears					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: «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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