English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 9

The door was not fastened, because the Bears were good Bears, who did nobody any harm, and never suspected that anybody would harm them.

Who acts: Bears, good Bears, anybody · What happens: not fasten, be, do, not suspect, harm · To what, where: door, good Bears, nobody, Bears

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, good Bears, anybody), 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	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fastened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fastened	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fastened	advmod
5	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Bears	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 Bears	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Bears	det
9	Bears	Bear	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 Bears	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Bears	cop
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Bears	amod
12	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fastened	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 did	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 did	nsubj
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Bears	acl:relcl
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 did	obj
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 harm	det
18	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 suspected	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 suspected	cc
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 suspected	advmod
22	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fastened	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 harm	mark
24	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 harm	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 harm	aux
26	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 suspected	advcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 harm	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not fasten	past · passive		the door	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a	past	the Bears	good Bears	tree rules
3	do	past	good Bears	nobody	tree rules
4	not suspect	past			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	harm	would	anybody	Bears = bear	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=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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