English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 57

The little old Woman had heard in her sleep the great, rough, gruff voice of the Great, Huge Bear; but she was so fast asleep that it was no more to her than the roaring of wind, or the rumbling of thunder.

Who acts: little old Woman, Woman, voice, wind, thunder · What happens: hear, be, not be, sleep, roar, rumble · To what, where: great rough gruff voice, sleep, Woman

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, voice, wind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Woman	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Woman	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Woman	amod
4	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sleep	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sleep	nmod:poss
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 voice	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 voice	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 great	punct
13	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 voice	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rough	punct
15	gruff	gruff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 voice	amod
16	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	22 Bear	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Bear	det
19	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Bear	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Great	punct
21	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Bear	amod
22	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 voice	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 asleep	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 asleep	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 asleep	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 asleep	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 fast	advmod
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 asleep	advmod
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heard	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 more	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 more	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 more	cop
33	no	no	ADV	_	34 more	advmod
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 asleep	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 more	obl
37	than	than	ADP	_	39 roaring	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 roaring	det
39	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 more	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 wind	case
41	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 roaring	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rumbling	punct
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 rumbling	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rumbling	det
45	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 roaring	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 thunder	case
47	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 rumbling	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	the little old Woman	the great rough gruff voice of the Great Huge Bear		Woman's sleep		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	is	past	Woman				asleep, fast property	tree rules
3	not is	past	voice		Woman		than the roaring of wind or the rumbling of thunder; more property	tree rules
4	sleep		Woman					nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent
5	roar		wind					nom roaring «event intransitive»: of=agent
6	rumble		thunder					nom rumbling «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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