The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’, sentence 8
Then the three bears thought it necessary that they should make farther search; so they went up stairs into their bed-chamber.
Who acts: three bears, they · What happens: think, make, go up · To what, where: bottom, farther search, stairs, bed chamber
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’. 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, they), 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 | 5 thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bears | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 bears | nummod |
| 4 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | obj |
| 7 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 necessary | advcl |
| 12 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 search | amod |
| 13 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 chamber | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 chamber | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 bed | punct |
| 24 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the three bears | bottom | then | necessary property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | should | they | farther search | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset search=Product | ||||
| 3 | go up | past | they | stairs | stairs's bed chamber | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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