More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 17

One of them was a great big Bear, and one was a middling Bear, and one was a little Bear.

Who acts: One · What happens: be · To what, where: great big Bear, middling Bear, little Bear

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Bear	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Bear	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Bear	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Bear	amod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Bear	amod
8	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Bear	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Bear	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 Bear	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Bear	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Bear	det
14	middling	middling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Bear	compound
15	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Bear	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Bear	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Bear	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 Bear	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Bear	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Bear	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Bear	amod
22	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Bear	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	One of Bears	a great big Bear and a middling Bear and a little Bear	tree rules
2	is a	past	one	a middling Bear	tree rules
3	is a	past	one	a little Bear	tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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