English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 22

And first she lay down upon the bed of the Great, Huge Bear; but that was too high at the head for her.

Who acts: Woman, that · What happens: lie down, be · To what, where: bed, head

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 lay	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 lay	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 Bear	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Bear	det
11	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Bear	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Great	punct
13	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Bear	amod
14	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bed	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 high	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 high	cc
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 high	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 high	cop
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 high	advmod
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 head	det
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 high	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 high	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Woman			the bed of the Great Huge Bear		down, first property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bed=Location
2	is	past	that			the head		for Woman; high property	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.

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