English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 15
And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot, nor too cold, but just right; and she liked it so well, that she ate it all up: but the naughty old Woman said a bad word about the little porridge-pot, because it did not hold enough for her.
Who acts: Woman, that, naughty old Woman, word · What happens: go, taste, be, like, eat up, say · To what, where: porridge, bad word, enough · 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, naughty old Woman, word), 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 went | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 porridge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 porridge | det |
| 7 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Little | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Little | det |
| 10 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 porridge | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Bear | punct |
| 12 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Bear | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Small | punct |
| 14 | Wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Bear | amod |
| 15 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 porridge | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tasted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tasted | cc |
| 18 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 tasted | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 hot | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hot | cc |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 hot | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 hot | cop |
| 24 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 hot | cc:preconj |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 hot | advmod |
| 26 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cold | punct |
| 28 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 cold | cc |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 cold | advmod |
| 30 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 right | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 right | cc |
| 33 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 right | advmod |
| 34 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cold | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 liked | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 liked | cc |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 liked | nsubj |
| 38 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 liked | obj |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 well | advmod |
| 41 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 liked | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 ate | punct |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 ate | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 ate | nsubj |
| 45 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 liked | conj |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 ate | obj |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 it | det |
| 48 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 ate | compound:prt |
| 49 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 55 said | punct |
| 50 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 55 said | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Woman | det |
| 52 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 Woman | amod |
| 53 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 Woman | amod |
| 54 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 said | nsubj |
| 55 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 word | det |
| 57 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 word | amod |
| 58 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 said | obj |
| 59 | about | about | ADP | _ | 64 pot | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 pot | det |
| 61 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 pot | amod |
| 62 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 pot | compound |
| 63 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 62 porridge | punct |
| 64 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 word | nmod |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 hold | punct |
| 66 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 70 hold | mark |
| 67 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 70 hold | nsubj |
| 68 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 70 hold | aux |
| 69 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 70 hold | advmod |
| 70 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 55 said | parataxis |
| 71 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 70 hold | obj |
| 72 | for | for | ADP | _ | 73 her | case |
| 73 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 70 hold | obl |
| 74 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Woman | the porridge of the Little and Small Wee Bear | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to porridge=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | taste | past | Woman not said here | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme that=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is | past | that | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | like | past | Woman | porridge | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 5 | eat up | past | Woman | porridge | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the naughty old Woman | a bad word | about the little porridge pot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 7 | not hold | past · do-support | word | enough | for Woman | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=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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