English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 14

And then she tasted the porridge of the Middle Bear, and that was too cold for her; and she said a bad word about that too.

Who acts: Woman, that · What happens: taste, be, say · To what, where: porridge, bad word · Speech: someone speaks here

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, that), 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	_	4 tasted	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 tasted	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tasted	nsubj
4	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porridge	det
6	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tasted	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Bear	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Bear	det
9	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Bear	compound
10	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 porridge	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cold	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cold	cc
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 cold	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cold	cop
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 cold	advmod
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tasted	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cold	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tasted	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 word	det
24	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 word	amod
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obj
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 that	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 word	nmod
28	too	too	ADV	_	22 said	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past	Woman	the porridge of the Middle Bear	then		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme porridge=Attribute
2	is	past	that			for Woman; cold property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Woman	a bad word		about that	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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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