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title: And when the Little, Small, Wee Bear came to look at his bed, there… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the Little, Small, Wee Bear came to look at his bed, there was the bolster in its place, and the pillow in its place upon the bolster, and upon the pillow was the little old woman’s ugly, dirty head,--which was not in its place, for she had no business there. Who acts: Little Small Wee Bear
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# The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’, sentence 5

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And when the Little, Small, Wee Bear came to look at his bed, there was the bolster in its place, and the pillow in its place upon the bolster, and upon the pillow was the little old woman’s ugly, dirty head,--which was not in its place, for she had no business there.

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**Who acts:** Little Small Wee Bear, bolster, ugly dirty head, woman · **What happens:** come, look, be, not be, have · **To what, where:** pillow, place, business

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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 (Little Small Wee Bear, bolster, ugly dirty head, 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:pg7277:35:5
# text = And when the Little, Small, Wee Bear came to look at his bed, there was the bolster in its place, and the pillow in its place upon the bolster, and upon the pillow was the little old woman’s ugly, dirty head,--which was not in its place, for she had no business there.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bolster	bolster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bolster	bolster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’s	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
47	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	for	for	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	acl:relcl	_	_
61	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	62	det	_	_
62	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	_
63	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Little Small Wee Bear |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | the Little Small Wee Bear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Bear's bed | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bed=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | the bolster in bolster's place | the pillow in bolster's place upon the bolster |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | 's the little old woman and ugly dirty head; upon the pillow | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | ugly dirty head |  |  | bolster's place |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past | woman | no business |  | there |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |

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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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