The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’, sentence 2
And when the Middle Bear looked at his, he saw that the spoon was standing in it too.
Who acts: Middle Bear, Bear, spoon · What happens: look, see, stand · To what, where: voice
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 (Middle Bear, Bear, spoon), 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 | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 looked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bear | det |
| 4 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bear | compound |
| 5 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 his | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 looked | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 standing | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spoon | det |
| 14 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 standing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 standing | aux |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 saw | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 standing | obl |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 standing | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Middle Bear | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Bear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | the spoon | voice | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=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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