The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 24

And then she lay down upon the bed of the Little, Small, Wee Bear; and that was neither too high at the head, nor at the foot, but just right.

Who acts: woman, that · What happens: lie down, be · To what, where: foot, head

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 lay	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Little	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Little	det
11	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bed	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Bear	punct
13	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Bear	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Small	punct
15	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Bear	amod
16	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bed	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 high	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 high	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 high	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 high	cop
21	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 high	cc:preconj
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 high	advmod
23	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 head	det
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 high	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 foot	punct
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 foot	cc
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 foot	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 foot	det
31	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 right	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 right	cc
34	just	just	ADV	_	35 right	advmod
35	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	woman			the foot	then	upon the bed of the Little and Small Wee Bear; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bed=Location
2	is	past	that			the head		high 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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