English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 27

Now the little old Woman had left the spoon of the Great, Huge Bear, standing in his porridge.

Who acts: little old Woman · What happens: leave, stand · To what, where: spoon, porridge

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 (little old Woman), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 left	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Woman	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Woman	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Woman	amod
5	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spoon	det
9	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	15 Bear	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Bear	det
12	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Bear	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Great	punct
14	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Bear	amod
15	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spoon	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 standing	punct
17	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 left	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 porridge	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 porridge	nmod:poss
20	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 standing	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect	the little old Woman	the spoon of the Great Huge Bear			now		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme
2	stand	gerund	the little old Woman not said here			bottom's porridge			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in porridge=Location

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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