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title: And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right; and she liked it so well, that she ate it all up: but the naughty old woman said a bad word about the little porridge-pot, because it did not hold enough for 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 15

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And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right; and she liked it so well, that she ate it all up: but the naughty old woman said a bad word about the little porridge-pot, because it did not hold enough for her.

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**Who acts:** woman, that, naughty old woman, word · **What happens:** go, taste, be, like, eat up, say · **To what, where:** porridge, bad word, enough · **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, naughty old woman, word), 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:pg7277:32:15
# text = And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right; and she liked it so well, that she ate it all up: but the naughty old woman said a bad word about the little porridge-pot, because it did not hold enough for her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	Wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc:preconj	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	just	just	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
54	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	about	about	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
60	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
61	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
65	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
66	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	nsubj	_	_
67	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	69	aux	_	_
68	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	69	advmod	_	_
69	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	parataxis	_	_
70	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	obj	_	_
71	for	for	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
72	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	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 | woman |  |  | the porridge of the Little and Small Wee Bear | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to porridge=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **taste** | past | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme that=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **like** | past | woman | porridge |  |  |  | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 7 | **eat up** | past | woman | porridge |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the naughty old woman | a bad word |  |  |  | about the little porridge pot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 9 | **not** **hold** | past · do-support | word | enough |  |  |  | for woman | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=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:** «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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