English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 37

Upon this the Three Bears, seeing that some one had entered their house, and eaten up the Little, Small, Wee Bear's breakfast, began to look about them.

Who acts: Three Bears · What happens: see, enter, eat up, begin, look · To what, where: one, Little · 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 (Three Bears), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	5 Bears	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Bears	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bears	det
4	Three	Three	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Bears	compound
5	Bears	Bear	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 began	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seeing	punct
7	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Bears	nmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 entered	mark
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 entered	aux
12	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 seeing	ccomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 house	nmod:poss
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eaten	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eaten	cc
17	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Bears	acl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 eaten	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Little	det
20	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eaten	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Small	punct
22	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eaten	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 breakfast	punct
24	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 breakfast	amod
25	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 breakfast	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Bear	case
27	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Small	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Bears	punct
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	to	to	PART	_	31 look	mark
31	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 look	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	enter	past · perfect · passive		some one		tree rules
3	eat up	participle	this Three Bears not said here	the Little		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	this Three Bears			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	look	to-infinitive	this Three Bears not said here		about Bears = bear	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/21/37/