--- title: And none was bigger than the other, but each was smaller than the ot… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And none was bigger than the other, but each was smaller than the other, and every one was more noisy and more impudent and more daring than the rest, and Stan gazed and grew cold with horror as he realised that they all belonged to him. Who acts: none, each, one, Stan. A sentence of «The Violet Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/) / 35 # The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 35 And none was bigger than the other, but each was smaller than the other, and every one was more noisy and more impudent and more daring than the rest, and Stan gazed and grew cold with horror as he realised that they all belonged to him. **Who acts:** none, each, one, Stan, children · **What happens:** be, dare, gaze, grow, realise, belong · **To what, where:** Stan · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, each, one, Stan), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:13:35 # text = And none was bigger than the other, but each was smaller than the other, and every one was more noisy and more impudent and more daring than the rest, and Stan gazed and grew cold with horror as he realised that they all belonged to him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 25 impudent impudent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 28 daring dare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 Stan Stan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 38 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 realised realise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 45 det _ _ 47 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 ccomp _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | none | | | | | than the other; big *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | each | | | | | than the other; small *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | past | every one | | | | | noisy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | every one *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **dare** | gerund | every one *not said here* | | | | | than the rest | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **gaze** | past | Stan | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **grow** | past | Stan *not said here* | | | | | with horror; cold *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **realise** | past | Stan | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **belong** | past | children *= child* | | Stan | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/36/) - ↑ back to [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/)