English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 61

Now the window was open, because the Bears, like good, tidy Bears, as they were, always opened their bedchamber window when they got up in the morning.

Who acts: window, Bears · What happens: be, open, get up · To what, where: bedchamber window

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 (window, Bears), 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	5 open	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 window	det
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 open	cop
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Bears	punct
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 Bears	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bears	det
9	Bears	Bear	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 open	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Bears	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 Bears	case
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Bears	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tidy	punct
14	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 good	conj
15	Bears	Bear	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 Bears	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 were	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 were	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 were	nsubj
19	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 open	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 opened	punct
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 opened	advmod
22	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 open	parataxis
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 window	nmod:poss
24	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 window	compound
25	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 opened	obj
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 got	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 got	nsubj
28	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 opened	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 got	compound:prt
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 morning	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 morning	det
32	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 got	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the window		now	because the Bears and good Bears; open property	tree rules
2	be	past	Bears = bear				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	open	past		Bears's bedchamber window		always property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme
4	get up	past	Bears = bear		morning		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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