The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 3

They had each a pot for their porridge, a little pot for the Little, Small, Wee Bear; and a middle-sized pot for the Middle Bear; and a great pot for the Great, Huge Bear.

Who acts: Bears · What happens: have, size · To what, where: pot

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 (Bears), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 pot	det
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pot	det
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 porridge	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 porridge	nmod:poss
8	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pot	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pot	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pot	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pot	amod
12	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 porridge	appos
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 Little	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Little	det
15	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pot	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Bear	punct
17	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Bear	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Small	punct
19	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Bear	amod
20	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pot	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 pot	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pot	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pot	det
24	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sized	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 middle	punct
26	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 pot	amod
27	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 Bear	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Bear	det
30	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Bear	compound
31	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 pot	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 pot	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 pot	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 pot	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 pot	amod
36	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
37	for	for	ADP	_	42 Bear	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Bear	det
39	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Bear	amod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Great	punct
41	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Bear	amod
42	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pot	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Bears = bear	each pot				for Bears's porridge; a sized pot for the Middle Bear obl; a great pot for the Great Huge Bear obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient
2	size	participle							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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