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title: Then the three bears thought it necessary that they should make fart… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the three bears thought it necessary that they should make farther search; so they went up stairs into their bed-chamber. Who acts: three bears, they. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’, sentence 8

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Then the three bears thought it necessary that they should make farther search; so they went up stairs into their bed-chamber.

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**Who acts:** three bears, they · **What happens:** think, make, go up · **To what, where:** bottom, farther search, stairs, bed chamber

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Sitting in My Chair!’. 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, they), 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:pg7277:34:8
# text = Then the three bears thought it necessary that they should make farther search; so they went up stairs into their bed-chamber.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	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	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | bottom |  |  | then | necessary *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | should | they | farther search |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset search=Product |
| 3 | **go up** | past | they | stairs |  | stairs's bed chamber |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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