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title: And when the Little, Small, Wee Bear came to look at his bed, there… — English Fairy Tales · 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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# English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 54

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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, ugly dirty head, Woman · **What happens:** come, look, be, not be, have · **To what, where:** ugly dirty head, place, business

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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 (Little Small Wee Bear, 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:pg7439:21:54
# 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	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
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	:	_	48	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	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	48	obl	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	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	48	nmod:poss	_	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	0	root	_	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	conj	_	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	.	_	48	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 bottom's bed | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bed=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the little old Woman's ugly dirty head and bolster's place |  |  |  | upon the pillow | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | the little old Woman's ugly dirty head and bolster's place |  |  | bolster's place |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **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:** «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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