The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 26

By this time the three bears thought their porridge would be cool enough; so they came home to breakfast.

Who acts: three bears, porridge, Bears · What happens: think, be, come · To what, where: breakfast · 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 (three bears, porridge, Bears), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bears	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bears	nummod
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 porridge	nmod:poss
9	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cool	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 cool	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 cool	cop
12	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	ccomp
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 cool	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	conj
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 breakfast	case
20	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the three bears		time		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	Bears's porridge			cool, enough property	tree rules
3	come	past	Bears = bear	breakfast		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to breakfast=Initial_Location

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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