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title: _" And then they went to have their milk, and the big Bear said, "WH… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _" And then they went to have their milk, and the big Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN DRINKING MY MILK?" and the middling Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN DRINKING MY MILK?" and the little Bear said, "_Who's been drinking my milk and has drunk it all up? Who acts: Bears, big Bear, middling Bear, little Bear. A sentenc
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 37

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\_" And then they went to have their milk, and the big Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN DRINKING MY MILK?" and the middling Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN DRINKING MY MILK?" and the little Bear said, "\_Who's been drinking my milk and has drunk it all up?

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**Who acts:** Bears, big Bear, middling Bear, little Bear · **What happens:** go, have, say, drink, drink up · **To what, where:** milk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bears, big Bear, middling Bear, little Bear), 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:pg14241:23:37
# text = _" And then they went to have their milk, and the big Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN DRINKING MY MILK?" and the middling Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN DRINKING MY MILK?" and the little Bear said, "_Who's been drinking my milk and has drunk it all up?
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'S	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	BEEN	been	X	GW	_	22	aux	_	_
22	DRINKING	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
23	MY	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	MILK	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	middling	middling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'S	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	BEEN	been	X	GW	_	37	aux	_	_
37	DRINKING	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	ccomp	_	_
38	MY	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	MILK	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	aux	_	_
53	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	ccomp	_	_
54	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	drunk	drink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	conj	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	det	_	_
61	up	up	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Bears *= bear* |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Bears *= bear* *not said here* | Bears's milk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the big Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **drink** | present |  | MY MILK |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the middling Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **drink** | present |  | MY MILK |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the little Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **drink** | present · progressive |  | my milk |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 9 | **drink up** | present · perfect |  | milk |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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