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title: And then she tasted the porridge of the Middle Bear, and that was to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And then she tasted the porridge of the Middle Bear, and that was too cold for her; and she said a bad word about that too. Who acts: Woman, that. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Bears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 14

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And then she tasted the porridge of the Middle Bear, and that was too cold for her; and she said a bad word about that too.

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**Who acts:** Woman, that · **What happens:** taste, be, say · **To what, where:** porridge, bad word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, that), 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:pg7439:21:14
# text = And then she tasted the porridge of the Middle Bear, and that was too cold for her; and she said a bad word about that too.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nmod	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | past | Woman | the porridge of the Middle Bear |  |  | then |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme porridge=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for Woman; cold *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Woman | a bad word |  |  |  | about that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

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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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