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title: Upon this the Three Bears, seeing that some one had entered their ho… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this the Three Bears, seeing that some one had entered their house, and eaten up the Little, Small, Wee Bear's breakfast, began to look about them. Who acts: Three Bears. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Bears, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 37

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Upon this the Three Bears, seeing that some one had entered their house, and eaten up the Little, Small, Wee Bear's breakfast, began to look about them.

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**Who acts:** Three Bears · **What happens:** see, enter, eat up, begin, look · **To what, where:** one, Little · **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 (Three Bears), 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:pg7439:21:37
# text = Upon this the Three Bears, seeing that some one had entered their house, and eaten up the Little, Small, Wee Bear's breakfast, began to look about them.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Bears	Bear	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	Wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
29	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **enter** | past · perfect · passive |  | some one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat up** | participle | this Three Bears *not said here* | the Little |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | past | this Three Bears |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | this Three Bears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Bears *= bear* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=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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