English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 36
said the Little, Small, Wee Bear, in his little, small, wee voice.
Who acts: Little Small Wee Bear · What happens: say · To what, where: little small wee voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 Small Wee Bear), 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 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bear | det |
| 3 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bear | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Little | punct |
| 5 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bear | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Small | punct |
| 7 | Wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bear | amod |
| 8 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 voice | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 voice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 little | punct |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 small | punct |
| 16 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 said | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Little Small Wee Bear | bottom's little small wee voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner |
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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