The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’, sentence 6
Then the Little, Small, Wee Bear looked at his, and there was the spoon in the porridge-pot, but the porridge was all gone.
Who acts: Wee Bear, porridge · What happens: look, be · To what, where: spoon
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 (Wee Bear, porridge), 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 | 9 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Little | det |
| 3 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Little | punct |
| 5 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 7 | Wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bear | amod |
| 8 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 spoon | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 spoon | nmod:poss |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 spoon | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spoon | det |
| 17 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 20 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pot | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 porridge | punct |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spoon | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gone | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 gone | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 porridge | det |
| 26 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gone | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 gone | cop |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 gone | advmod |
| 29 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Wee Bear | then | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Bear's spoon | in the porridge pot | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the porridge | all, gone 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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