--- title: And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, an… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot, nor too cold, but just right; and she liked it so well, that she ate it all up: but the naughty old Woman said a bad word about the little porridge-pot, because it did not hold enough for --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/21/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The Story of the Three Bears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/21/) / 15 # English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 15 And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot, nor too cold, but just right; and she liked it so well, that she ate it all up: but the naughty old Woman said a bad word about the little porridge-pot, because it did not hold enough for her. **Who acts:** Woman, that, naughty old Woman, word · **What happens:** go, taste, be, like, eat up, say · **To what, where:** porridge, bad word, enough · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, naughty old Woman, word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:21:15 # text = And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot, nor too cold, but just right; and she liked it so well, that she ate it all up: but the naughty old Woman said a bad word about the little porridge-pot, because it did not hold enough for her. 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 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 porridge porridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 Wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 Bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 tasted taste VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 26 cc:preconj _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 30 cc _ _ 29 too too ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 46 det _ _ 48 up up ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 49 : : PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 50 but but CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 52 naughty naughty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 53 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 55 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 59 about about ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 61 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 62 porridge porridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 63 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 70 punct _ _ 66 because because SCONJ IN _ 70 mark _ _ 67 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 70 nsubj _ _ 68 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 70 aux _ _ 69 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 70 advmod _ _ 70 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 55 parataxis _ _ 71 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 70 obj _ _ 72 for for ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 73 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 70 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Woman | | | the porridge of the Little and Small Wee Bear | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to porridge=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **taste** | past | Woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme that=Attribute | | 3 | **is** | past | that | | | | | hot *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **like** | past | Woman | porridge | | | | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 5 | **eat up** | past | Woman | porridge | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the naughty old Woman | a bad word | | | | about the little porridge pot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 7 | **not** **hold** | past · do-support | word | enough | | | | for Woman | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/21/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/21/16/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Three Bears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/21/)