English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 30
And when the Middle Bear looked at his, he saw that the spoon was standing in it too.
Who acts: Middle Bear, bottom, spoon · What happens: look, see, stand · To what, where: voice
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 (Middle Bear, bottom, spoon), 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 | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 looked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bear | det |
| 4 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bear | compound |
| 5 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 his | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 looked | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 standing | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spoon | det |
| 14 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 standing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 standing | aux |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 saw | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 standing | obl |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 standing | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Middle Bear | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | bottom | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | the spoon | voice | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=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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