The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’, sentence 9

Upon this the three bears, seeing that some one had entered their house, and eaten up the Little, Small, Wee Bear’s breakfast, began to look about them.

Who acts: three bears · What happens: see, enter, eat up, begin, look · To what, where: one, Little · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (three 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	5 bears	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bears	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bears	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bears	nummod
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 began	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seeing	punct
7	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bears	acl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 entered	mark
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 entered	aux
12	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 seeing	ccomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 house	nmod:poss
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eaten	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eaten	cc
17	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bears	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 eaten	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Little	det
20	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eaten	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 breakfast	punct
22	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 breakfast	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Small	punct
24	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Bear	amod
25	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 breakfast	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Bear	case
27	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Little	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bears	punct
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	to	to	PART	_	31 look	mark
31	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 look	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the three bears not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	enter	past · perfect · passive		some one		tree rules
3	eat up	participle	the three bears not said here	the Little Wee Bear's Small breakfast		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	the three bears			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	look	to-infinitive	the three bears not said here		about them = they	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme

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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