English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 38
Now the little old Woman had not put the hard cushion straight when she rose from the chair of the Great, Huge Bear.
Who acts: little old Woman, Woman · What happens: not put, rise · To what, where: hard cushion, chair
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, 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 | 8 put | 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 | 8 put | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 put | advmod |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cushion | det |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cushion | amod |
| 11 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 put | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 rose | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rose | nsubj |
| 15 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 chair | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chair | det |
| 18 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Bear | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Bear | det |
| 21 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Bear | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Great | punct |
| 23 | Huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Bear | amod |
| 24 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chair | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not put | past | the little old Woman | the hard cushion | now | straight property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cushion=Goal | ||
| 2 | rise | past | Woman | the chair of the Great Huge Bear | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chair=Initial_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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