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title: By this time the three bears thought their porridge would be cool en… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time the three bears thought their porridge would be cool enough; so they came home to breakfast. Who acts: three bears, porridge, Bears. 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 26

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By this time the three bears thought their porridge would be cool enough; so they came home to breakfast.

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**Who acts:** three bears, porridge, Bears · **What happens:** think, be, come · **To what, where:** breakfast · **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 (three bears, porridge, Bears), 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:pg7277:32:26
# text = By this time the three bears thought their porridge would be cool enough; so they came home to breakfast.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the three bears |  |  |  | time |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | Bears's porridge |  |  |  |  | cool, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | Bears *= bear* |  |  | breakfast |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to breakfast=Initial\_Location |

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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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