The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’, sentence 10

Now the little old woman had not put the hard cushion straight when she rose from the chair of the Great, Huge Bear.

Who acts: little old woman, woman · What happens: not put, rise · To what, where: hard cushion, chair

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’. 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, woman), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 put	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	8 put	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 put	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 put	advmod
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cushion	det
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cushion	amod
11	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 put	advmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 rose	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rose	nsubj
15	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 put	advcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 chair	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chair	det
18	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rose	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	24 Bear	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Bear	det
21	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Bear	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Great	punct
23	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Bear	amod
24	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chair	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not put	past	the little old woman	the hard cushion			now	straight property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cushion=Goal
2	rise	past	woman			the chair of the Great Huge Bear			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chair=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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