English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 18
And then she sate down in the chair of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and that was neither too hard, nor too soft, but just right.
Who acts: Woman, that · What happens: sate down, be · To what, where: chair
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 sate | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sate | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sate | nsubj |
| 4 | sate | sate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sate | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 chair | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chair | det |
| 8 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sate | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Little | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Little | det |
| 11 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chair | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Bear | punct |
| 13 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Bear | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Small | punct |
| 15 | Wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Bear | amod |
| 16 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chair | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hard | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hard | cc |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 hard | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hard | cop |
| 21 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 hard | cc:preconj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 hard | advmod |
| 23 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sate | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 soft | punct |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 soft | cc |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 soft | advmod |
| 27 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hard | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 right | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 right | cc |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 right | advmod |
| 31 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hard | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sate down | infinitive | Woman | the chair of the Little and Small Wee Bear | then | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument | |||
| 2 | is | past | that | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | that not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | that not said here | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/21/18/