The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 4

And they had each a chair to sit in; a little chair for the Little, Small, Wee Bear; and a middle-sized chair for the Middle Bear; and a great chair for the Great, Huge Bear.

Who acts: Bears · What happens: have, sit in, size · To what, where: chair

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	Bears = bear	each chair	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Patient
2	sit in	to-infinitive	Bears = bear not said here	each chair not said here	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	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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