English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 54
And when the Little, Small, Wee Bear came to look at his bed, there was the bolster in its place; and the pillow in its place upon the bolster; and upon the pillow was the little old Woman's ugly, dirty head,--which was not in its place, for she had no business there.
Who acts: Little Small Wee Bear, ugly dirty head, Woman · What happens: come, look, be, not be, have · To what, where: ugly dirty head, place, business
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, ugly dirty head, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 was | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bear | det |
| 4 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Bear | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Little | punct |
| 6 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Bear | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Small | punct |
| 8 | Wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Bear | amod |
| 9 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 was | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bed | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 head | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bolster | det |
| 20 | bolster | bolster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 place | nmod:poss |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bolster | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 pillow | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pillow | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pillow | det |
| 27 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 place | nmod:poss |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pillow | nmod |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 bolster | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bolster | det |
| 33 | bolster | bolster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 place | nmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 head | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 head | cc |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 38 pillow | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 pillow | det |
| 38 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 head | obl |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 head | cop |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Woman | det |
| 41 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Woman | amod |
| 42 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Woman | amod |
| 43 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 head | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 Woman | case |
| 45 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 head | amod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 ugly | punct |
| 47 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 head | amod |
| 48 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 place | punct |
| 50 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 56 place | punct |
| 51 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 56 place | nsubj |
| 52 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 place | cop |
| 53 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 56 place | advmod |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 place | case |
| 55 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 place | nmod:poss |
| 56 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 head | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 had | punct |
| 58 | for | for | ADP | _ | 60 had | case |
| 59 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 had | nsubj |
| 60 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 place | acl:relcl |
| 61 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 62 business | det |
| 62 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 had | obj |
| 63 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 60 had | advmod |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 head | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Little Small Wee Bear | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the Little Small Wee Bear not said here | at bottom's bed | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the little old Woman's ugly dirty head and bolster's place | upon the pillow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | the little old Woman's ugly dirty head and bolster's place | bolster's place | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Woman | no business | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |
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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