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title: If she had been a good little old Woman, she would have waited till… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If she had been a good little old Woman, she would have waited till the Bears came home, and then, perhaps, they would have asked her to breakfast; for they were good Bears--a little rough or so, as the manner of Bears is, but for all that very good-natured and hospitable. Who acts: Woman, Bears, ma
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# English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 11

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If she had been a good little old Woman, she would have waited till the Bears came home, and then, perhaps, they would have asked her to breakfast; for they were good Bears--a little rough or so, as the manner of Bears is, but for all that very good-natured and hospitable.

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**Who acts:** Woman, Bears, manner · **What happens:** be, wait, come, ask · **To what, where:** good little old Woman, Woman

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 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 (Woman, Bears, manner), 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:pg7439:21:11
# text = If she had been a good little old Woman, she would have waited till the Bears came home, and then, perhaps, they would have asked her to breakfast; for they were good Bears--a little rough or so, as the manner of Bears is, but for all that very good-natured and hospitable.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Bears	Bear	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	parataxis	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Bears	Bear	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
51	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
53	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	60	nsubj	_	_
56	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	55	obj	_	_
57	very	very	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	natured	natured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Woman | a good little old Woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | would · perfect | Woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Bears |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | would · perfect | Bears *= bear* |  | Woman |  | then | to breakfast; perhaps *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | past | Bears *= bear* |  |  |  |  | for good Bears | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** | present | the manner of Bears |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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