Table 1.

This table shows clauses taken from the The Beanie Baby Craze story. The situational coding performed by Radvansky et al. (2001) is shown. Clauses that overlap situationally share a value. A number in a cell indicates the identity of that dimension. For example, clauses 1–7 are all from the same spatial region in the story (region 1). Clauses 8 and 9 are both from the next spatial region in the story (region 2). This coding was used to determine whether any two verbs shared a situational dimension and event. For example, the verb come shares the same event as the verb purchased, but does not share the same event as the verb taken. (See Figure S1 in the Supplementary Materials for event segmentation norms per clause used to determine event membership).

Clause Number	Clause	Space	Time	Entity	Cause	Goal	Event	Verb
1	Beanie babies became very popular in Mary's town of Lakewood	1	1	1	1	1	1
2	because they are cute little toys	1	1	1	1	1	1
3	that come in a variety of animals.	1	1	1	1	1	1	come
4	She purchased them as gifts at Christmas,	1	2	1	1	2	1	purchased
5	to give to her children.	1	2	2	1	2	1	give
6	While most collectors enjoy beanie babies,	1	2	3	1	2	1	enjoy
7	it is unlikely that they would be valued as highly today	1	3	3	1	2	1	valued
8	as they were in Lakewood last year.	2	4	3	1	3	1
9	For some reason, beanie babies became very popular at this time.	2	4	3	2	3	1
10	Beanie babies were first brought into Lakewood from Los Angeles.	3	4	3	3	3	1	brought
11	In 1996, Ellen Smith told Mary of seeing these toys.	3	5	4	4	3	2	told
12	She had been quite taken with the cuteness of these stuffed animals.	3	5	4	4	3	2	taken
13	In a few weeks, some toys were shipped out.	3	6	4	4	3	2	shipped
14	They were to be sold at toy shops in Lakewood.	4	6	4	4	4	2