The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 16

Then the little old woman sate down in the chair of the Great, Huge Bear, and that was too hard for her.

Who acts: little old woman, that · What happens: sate down, be · To what, where: chair

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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sate	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 sate	nsubj
6	sate	sate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 sate	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 chair	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chair	det
10	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sate	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 Bear	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Bear	det
13	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Bear	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Great	punct
15	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Bear	amod
16	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chair	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hard	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hard	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 hard	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hard	cop
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 hard	advmod
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sate	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hard	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sate down	infinitive	the little old woman			the chair of the Great Huge Bear	then	down property	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument
2	is	past	that					for woman; hard 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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