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title: _" Then they went upstairs and into the bedroom, and the big Bear sa… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _" Then they went upstairs and into the bedroom, and the big Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?" and the middling Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?" and the little Bear said, "_Who's been sleeping in my bed?--and see here he is! Who acts: Bears, big Bear, middling Bear, little Bear.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 38

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\_" Then they went upstairs and into the bedroom, and the big Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?" and the middling Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?" and the little Bear said, "\_Who's been sleeping in my bed?--and see here he is!

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**Who acts:** Bears, big Bear, middling Bear, little Bear, BEEN · **What happens:** go, say, sleep, see, be · **To what, where:** BED · **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:pg14241:23:38
# text = _" Then they went upstairs and into the bedroom, and the big Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?" and the middling Bear said, "WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?" and the little Bear said, "_Who's been sleeping in my bed?--and see here he is!
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	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	5	parataxis	_	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	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux	_	_
22	SLEEPING	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
23	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	MY	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	BED	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	middling	middling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	'S	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	BEEN	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux	_	_
38	SLEEPING	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	ccomp	_	_
39	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	MY	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	BED	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
50	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	55	aux	_	_
55	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	ccomp	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
63	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	62	advmod	_	_
64	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
65	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the big Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sleep** | present · progressive |  |  |  | MY BED |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the middling Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sleep** | present · progressive |  |  |  | MY BED |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the little Bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **sleep** | present · progressive |  |  |  | my bed |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 8 | **see** | infinitive | the big Bear *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **be** | present | BEEN |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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