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title: said the Little, Small Wee Bear, in his little, small wee voice. — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: said the Little, Small Wee Bear, in his little, small wee voice. Who acts: Little Small Wee Bear. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’, sentence 8

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said the Little, Small Wee Bear, in his little, small wee voice.

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**Who acts:** Little Small Wee Bear · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** little small wee voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been At My Porridge!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Small Wee Bear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7277:33:8
# text = said the Little, Small Wee Bear, in his little, small wee voice.
1	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Little Small Wee Bear |  |  | Bear's little small wee voice |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner |

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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.

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**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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