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title: So first she tasted the porridge of the Great, Huge Bear, and that w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So first she tasted the porridge of the Great, Huge Bear, and that was too hot for her; and she said a bad word about that. Who acts: woman, that. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Three Bears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 13

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So first she tasted the porridge of the Great, Huge Bear, and that was too hot for her; and she said a bad word about that.

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**Who acts:** woman, that · **What happens:** taste, be, say · **To what, where:** porridge, bad word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (woman, that), 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:pg7277:32:13
# text = So first she tasted the porridge of the Great, Huge Bear, and that was too hot for her; and she said a bad word about that.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | past | woman | the porridge of the Great Huge Bear |  |  |  | first *property* | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme porridge=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for woman; hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman | a bad word |  |  |  | about that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

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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:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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