English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 11

If she had been a good little old Woman, she would have waited till the Bears came home, and then, perhaps, they would have asked her to breakfast; for they were good Bears--a little rough or so, as the manner of Bears is, but for all that very good-natured and hospitable.

Who acts: Woman, Bears, manner · What happens: be, wait, come, ask · To what, where: good little old Woman, Woman

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Bears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woman, Bears, manner), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 Woman	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Woman	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Woman	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 Woman	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Woman	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Woman	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Woman	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Woman	amod
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 waited	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Woman	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 waited	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 waited	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 waited	aux
14	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Bears	det
17	Bears	Bear	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 waited	advcl
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asked	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 asked	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 perhaps	punct
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	29 asked	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asked	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 asked	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 asked	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 asked	aux
29	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 waited	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 asked	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 breakfast	case
32	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 asked	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 Bears	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	38 Bears	case
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 Bears	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 Bears	cop
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Bears	amod
38	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 waited	conj
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 rough	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 little	det
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 rough	obl:unmarked
42	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Bears	parataxis
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 so	cc
44	so	so	ADV	_	42 rough	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 is	punct
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 is	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 manner	det
48	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 is	nsubj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Bears	case
50	Bears	Bear	PROPN	Number=Plur	48 manner	nmod
51	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 waited	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 natured	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	60 natured	cc
54	for	for	ADP	_	55 all	case
55	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	60 natured	nsubj
56	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 all	obj
57	very	very	ADV	_	58 good	advmod
58	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 all	amod
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 good	punct
60	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 waited	conj
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 hospitable	cc
62	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 natured	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Woman	a good little old Woman				tree rules
2	wait	would · perfect	Woman					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	the Bears				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	would · perfect	Bears = bear		Woman	then	to breakfast; perhaps property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	is	past	Bears = bear				for good Bears	tree rules
6	be	present	the manner of Bears					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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