English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 7
And while they were walking, a little old Woman came to the house.
Who acts: Bears, little old Woman · What happens: walk, come · To what, where: house
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, little old 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 | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 walking | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walking | aux |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 walking | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Woman | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Woman | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Woman | amod |
| 10 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | Bears = bear | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | a little old Woman | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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