The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’, sentence 12
Now the window was open, because the bears, like good, tidy bears as they were, always opened their bedchamber window when they got up in the morning.
Who acts: window, bears, roaring · What happens: be, open, get up · To what, where: bedchamber window
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (window, bears, roaring), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:2527): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 open | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 window | det |
| 3 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 open | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | cop |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 opened | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 opened | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bears | det |
| 9 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 opened | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bears | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 bears | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bears | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tidy | punct |
| 14 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bears | amod |
| 15 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 opened | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 were | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 were | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bears | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bears | punct |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 opened | advmod |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 open | advcl |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 window | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bedchamber | bedchamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 window | compound |
| 24 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opened | obj |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 got | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 got | nsubj |
| 27 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 opened | advcl |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 got | compound:prt |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 morning | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 morning | det |
| 31 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 got | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the window | now | open property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | open | past | the bears | roaring's bedchamber window | like good tidy bears; always property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | |||
| 3 | get up | past | roaring | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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