English Fairy Tales, 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 «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 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	10 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	10 Bear	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Bear	det
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bear	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Little	punct
8	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bear	amod
9	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bear	amod
10	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 Bear	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Bear	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 Bear	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Bear	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Bear	det
16	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sized	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Middle	punct
18	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 Bear	amod
19	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Bear	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Bear	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Bear	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Bear	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 Bear	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Bear	det
26	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Bear	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Great	punct
28	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Bear	amod
29	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Bear	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 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	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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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