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title: So upstairs he went, and he found a great room with three beds in it… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So upstairs he went, and he found a great room with three beds in it; one was a big bed, and one was a middling bed, and one was a little white bed; and he climbed up into the big bed, but it was so hard and lumpy and uncomfortable that he jumped down again at once, and tried the middling bed. Who a
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 34

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So upstairs he went, and he found a great room with three beds in it; one was a big bed, and one was a middling bed, and one was a little white bed; and he climbed up into the big bed, but it was so hard and lumpy and uncomfortable that he jumped down again at once, and tried the middling bed.

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**Who acts:** Scrapefoot, one · **What happens:** go, find, be, climb up, jump down, try · **To what, where:** great room, big bed, middling bed, little white bed

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:23:34
# text = So upstairs he went, and he found a great room with three beds in it; one was a big bed, and one was a middling bed, and one was a little white bed; and he climbed up into the big bed, but it was so hard and lumpy and uncomfortable that he jumped down again at once, and tried the middling bed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	middling	middling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
42	up	up	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	expl	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	lumpy	lumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	conj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	conj	_	_
57	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
60	down	down	ADP	RP	_	59	compound:prt	_	_
61	again	again	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
62	at	at	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
68	middling	middling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	compound	_	_
69	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Scrapefoot |  |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | Scrapefoot | a great room |  |  |  | with three beds in room | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | past | one | a big bed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | one | a middling bed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | one | a little white bed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **climb up** | past | Scrapefoot |  |  | the big bed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination |
| 7 | **is** | past | Scrapefoot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | Scrapefoot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **be** |  | Scrapefoot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **jump down** | past | Scrapefoot |  |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |
| 11 | **try** | past | Scrapefoot *not said here* | the middling bed |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Eventuality |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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