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title: And they had each a bed to sleep in; a little bed for the Little, Sm… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Bears. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Bears, with its dependency tree and t
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# English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 5

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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.

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**Who acts:** Bears · **What happens:** have, sleep in, size · **To what, where:** bed

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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 (Bears), 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:pg7439:21:5
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	Wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
42	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Bears *= bear* | each bed |  |  |  | a little bed for the Little and Small Wee Bear *obl*; a sized bed for the Middle Bear *obl*; a great bed for the Great Huge Bear *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
| 2 | **sleep in** | to-infinitive | Bears *= bear* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **size** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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