English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 55
“Somebody has been lying in my bed,--and here she is!”
Who acts: Somebody · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: bed
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 (Somebody), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
| 2 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 lying | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 lying | aux |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 here | cc |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lying | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 is | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 here | cop |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | Somebody | my bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | here property | tree rules |
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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