English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 34

Then the Little, Small, Wee Bear looked at his, and there was the spoon in the porridge-pot, but the porridge was all gone.

Who acts: Wee Bear, porridge · What happens: look, be · To what, where: spoon

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 (Wee Bear, porridge), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 looked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Little	det
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looked	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Little	punct
5	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looked	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct
7	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Bear	amod
8	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	17 spoon	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 spoon	nmod:poss
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 was	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 spoon	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spoon	det
17	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 pot	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pot	det
20	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pot	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 porridge	punct
22	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spoon	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gone	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 gone	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 porridge	det
26	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gone	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gone	cop
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 gone	advmod
29	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looked	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Wee Bear		then		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past		bottom's spoon		in the porridge pot	tree rules
3	is	past	the porridge			all, gone 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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