The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 2

One of them was a Little, Small, Wee Bear; and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and the other was a Great, Huge Bear.

Who acts: One, other · What happens: be, size · To what, where: Little Small Wee Bear, sized Bear, Great Huge Bear

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (One, other), 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	11 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	11 Bear	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Bear	det
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Bear	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Bear	punct
8	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Bear	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Small	punct
10	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Bear	amod
11	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 Bear	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Bear	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 Bear	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Bear	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Bear	det
17	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sized	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Middle	punct
19	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 Bear	amod
20	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Bear	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Bear	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Bear	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 other	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Bear	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 Bear	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Bear	det
27	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Bear	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Great	punct
29	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Bear	amod
30	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Bear	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	One of Bears	a Little Small Wee Bear and a sized Bear and a Great Huge Bear	tree rules
2	size	participle			tree rules
3	is a	past	one	a sized Bear and a Great Huge Bear	tree rules
4	is a	past	the other	a Great Huge 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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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