English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 6

One day, after they had made the porridge for their breakfast, and poured it into their porridge-pots, they walked out into the wood while the porridge was cooling, that they might not burn their mouths, by beginning too soon to eat it.

Who acts: Bears, porridge · What happens: make, pour, walk out, cool, not burn, begin · To what, where: porridge, porridge pots, wood, mouths

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 (Bears, porridge), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 made	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 porridge	det
9	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 breakfast	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 breakfast	nmod:poss
12	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 porridge	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 poured	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 poured	cc
15	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 poured	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 pots	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pots	nmod:poss
19	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pots	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 porridge	punct
21	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 poured	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 walked	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 walked	nsubj
24	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 poured	conj
25	out	out	ADV	_	24 walked	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 wood	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wood	det
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walked	obl
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 cooling	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 porridge	det
31	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cooling	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cooling	aux
33	cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 walked	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 burn	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 burn	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 burn	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 burn	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 burn	advmod
39	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 cooling	conj
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 mouths	nmod:poss
41	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 burn	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 beginning	punct
43	by	by	SCONJ	_	44 beginning	mark
44	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 cooling	conj
45	too	too	ADV	_	46 soon	advmod
46	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 beginning	advmod
47	to	to	PART	_	48 eat	mark
48	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 beginning	advcl
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 eat	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect	Bears = bear	the porridge		day	for Bears's breakfast	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent porridge=Material for breakfast=Beneficiary
2	pour	past		porridge	Bears's porridge pots			vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into pot=Destination
3	walk out	past	Bears = bear		the wood		out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cool	past · progressive	the porridge					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	not burn	might	Bears = bear	Bears's mouths				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
6	begin	gerund	the porridge not said here				soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	eat	to-infinitive	the porridge not said here	porridge				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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