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title: Now the window was open, because the bears, like good, tidy bears as… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the window was open, because the bears, like good, tidy bears as they were, always opened their bedchamber window when they got up in the morning. Who acts: window, bears, roaring. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’, with its dependency tree
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# The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’, sentence 12

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Now the window was open, because the bears, like good, tidy bears as they were, always opened their bedchamber window when they got up in the morning.

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**Who acts:** window, bears, roaring · **What happens:** be, open, get up · **To what, where:** bedchamber window

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (window, bears, roaring), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:2527`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:35:12
# text = Now the window was open, because the bears, like good, tidy bears as they were, always opened their bedchamber window when they got up in the morning.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the window |  |  |  | now | open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past | the bears | roaring's bedchamber window |  |  |  | like good tidy bears; always *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme |
| 3 | **get up** | past | roaring |  |  |  | morning |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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