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title: The door was not fastened, because the bears were good bears, who di… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The door was not fastened, because the bears were good bears, who did nobody any harm, and never suspected that anybody would harm them. Who acts: bears, good bears, anybody. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Three Bears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 9

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The door was not fastened, because the bears were good bears, who did nobody any harm, and never suspected that anybody would harm them.

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**Who acts:** bears, good bears, anybody · **What happens:** not fasten, be, do, not suspect, harm · **To what, where:** door, good bears, nobody, Bears

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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 (bears, good bears, anybody), 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:pg7277:32:9
# text = The door was not fastened, because the bears were good bears, who did nobody any harm, and never suspected that anybody would harm them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	obj	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	suspected	suspect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fasten** | past · passive |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the bears | good bears |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past | good bears | nobody |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **suspect** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **harm** | would | anybody | Bears *= bear* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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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