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title: One of them was a Little, Small Wee Bear; and one was a Middle-sized… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Bears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 2

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One of them was a Little, Small Wee Bear; and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and the other was a Great, Huge Bear.

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**Who acts:** One, other · **What happens:** be, size · **To what, where:** Little Small Wee Bear, sized Bear, Great Huge Bear

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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.

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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:pg7439:21:2
# text = One of them was a Little, Small Wee Bear; and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and the other was a Great, Huge Bear.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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:** «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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