The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 13

So first she tasted the porridge of the Great, Huge Bear, and that was too hot for her; and she said a bad word about that.

Who acts: woman, that · What happens: taste, be, say · To what, where: porridge, bad word · Speech: someone speaks here

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, that), 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	_	4 tasted	advmod
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 tasted	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tasted	nsubj
4	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porridge	det
6	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tasted	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 Bear	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Bear	det
9	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Bear	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Great	punct
11	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Bear	amod
12	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 porridge	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hot	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hot	cc
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 hot	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hot	cop
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 hot	advmod
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tasted	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hot	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tasted	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 word	det
26	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 word	amod
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obj
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 that	case
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 word	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	taste	past	woman	the porridge of the Great Huge Bear	first property	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme porridge=Attribute
2	is	past	that		for woman; hot property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	woman	a bad word	about that	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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