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title: Now the little old woman had left the spoon of the Great, Huge Bear,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the little old woman had left the spoon of the Great, Huge Bear, standing in his porridge. Who acts: little old woman. 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 27

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Now the little old woman had left the spoon of the Great, Huge Bear, standing in his porridge.

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**Who acts:** little old woman · **What happens:** leave, stand · **To what, where:** spoon, porridge

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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 (little old woman), 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:pg7277:32:27
# text = Now the little old woman had left the spoon of the Great, Huge Bear, standing in his porridge.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	porridge	porridge	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 | **leave** | past · perfect | the little old woman | the spoon of the Great Huge Bear |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | the little old woman *not said here* |  |  | bottom's porridge |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in porridge=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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