English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 48
Now the little old Woman had pulled the pillow of the Great, Huge Bear, out of its place.
What happens: pull · To what, where: little old Woman, place
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: 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 | 7 pulled | 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 | 7 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pulled | aux |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pillow | det |
| 9 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Bear | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bear | det |
| 12 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Bear | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Great | punct |
| 14 | Huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Bear | amod |
| 15 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pillow | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 place | punct |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 place | nmod:poss |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past · perfect · passive | the little old Woman | pillow's place | now | vn slide-11.2 «NP V NP.destination PP.initial_location»: subject=Destination pillow=Theme out place=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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