The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’, sentence 5

And when the Little, Small, Wee Bear came to look at his bed, there was the bolster in its place, and the pillow in its place upon the bolster, and upon the pillow was the little old woman’s ugly, dirty head,--which was not in its place, for she had no business there.

Who acts: Little Small Wee Bear, bolster, ugly dirty head, woman · What happens: come, look, be, not be, have · To what, where: pillow, place, business

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 (Little Small Wee Bear, bolster, ugly dirty head, woman), 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	_	18 was	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bear	det
4	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Bear	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Little	punct
6	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Bear	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Small	punct
8	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Bear	amod
9	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 was	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 look	mark
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 bed	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 bed	nmod:poss
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bolster	det
20	bolster	bolster	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 place	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 place	nmod:poss
23	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bolster	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pillow	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pillow	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pillow	det
27	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 place	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 place	nmod:poss
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pillow	nmod
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 bolster	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bolster	det
33	bolster	bolster	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 place	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 woman	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 woman	cc
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 pillow	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pillow	det
38	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 woman	obl
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 woman	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 woman	det
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 woman	amod
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 woman	amod
43	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 woman	case
45	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 head	amod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ugly	punct
47	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 head	amod
48	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 woman	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 place	punct
50	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 place	punct
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 place	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 place	cop
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 place	advmod
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 place	case
55	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 place	nmod:poss
56	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 head	appos
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 had	punct
58	for	for	ADP	_	60 had	case
59	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 had	nsubj
60	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 place	acl:relcl
61	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	62 business	det
62	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 had	obj
63	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	60 had	advmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Little Small Wee Bear				tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	the Little Small Wee Bear not said here			at Bear's bed	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bed=Theme
3	be	past	the bolster in bolster's place	the pillow in bolster's place upon the bolster	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past				's the little old woman and ugly dirty head; upon the pillow	tree rules
5	not is	past	ugly dirty head		bolster's place		tree rules
6	have	past	woman	no business	there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient

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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