--- title: The Story of the Three Bears — The Green Fairy Book · full text with trees description: The Story of the Three Bears, «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Once upon a time there were Three Bears, who lived together in a house of their own in a wood. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / The Story of the Three Bears # The Story of the Three Bears The Story of the Three Bears of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang: the whole text, 27 sentences and 720 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/1/) — Once upon a time there were Three Bears, who lived together in a house of their own in a wood. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/2/) — One of them was a Little, Small, Wee Bear; and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and the other was a Great, Huge Bear. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/3/) — 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. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/4/) — 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. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/5/) — And they had each a bed to sleep in; a little bed for the Little, Small, Wee Bear; and a middle-sized bed for the Middle Bear; and a great bed for the Great, Huge Bear. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/6/) — One day, after they had made the porridge for their breakfast, and poured it into their porridge-pots, they walked out into the wood while the porridge was cooling, that they might not burn their mouths by beginning too soon to eat it. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/7/) — And while they were walking, a little old woman came to the house. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/8/) — She could not have been a good, honest old woman; for, first, she looked in at the window, and then she peeped in at the keyhole; and, seeing nobody in the house, she lifted the latch. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/9/) — The door was not fastened, because the bears were good bears, who did nobody any harm, and never suspected that anybody would harm them. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/10/) — So the little old woman opened the door and went in; and well pleased she was when she saw the porridge on the table. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/11/) — If she had been a good little old woman she would have waited till the bears came home, and then, perhaps, they would have asked her to breakfast; for they were good bears--a little rough or so, as the manner of bears is, but for all that very good-natured and hospitable. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/12/) — But she was an impudent, bad old woman, and set about helping herself. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/13/) — So first she tasted the porridge of the Great, Huge Bear, and that was too hot for her; and she said a bad word about that. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/14/) — And then she tasted the porridge of the Middle Bear; and that was too cold for her; and she said a bad word about that too. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/15/) — And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right; and she liked it so well, that she ate it all up: but the naughty old woman said a bad word about the little porridge-pot, because it did not hold enough for her. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/16/) — Then the little old woman sate down in the chair of the Great, Huge Bear, and that was too hard for her. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/17/) — And then she sate down in the chair of the Middle Bear, and that was too soft for her. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/18/) — And then she sate down in the chair of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and that was neither too hard nor too soft, but just right. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/19/) — So she seated herself in it, and there she sate till the bottom of the chair came out, and down came she, plump upon the ground. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/20/) — And the naughty old woman said a wicked word about that too. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/21/) — Then the little old woman went up stairs into the bed-chamber in which the three bears slept. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/22/) — And first she lay down upon the bed of the Great, Huge Bear; but that was too high at the head for her. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/23/) — And next she lay down upon the bed of the Middle Bear; and that was too high at the foot for her. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/24/) — And then she lay down upon the bed of the Little, Small, Wee Bear; and that was neither too high at the head, nor at the foot, but just right. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/25/) — So she covered herself up comfortably, and lay there till she fell fast asleep. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/26/) — By this time the three bears thought their porridge would be cool enough; so they came home to breakfast. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/32/27/) — Now the little old woman had left the spoon of the Great, Huge Bear, standing in his porridge. - ← previous: [The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/) - next →: [‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/33/) - ↑ back to [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/)