### BUGGY CODE ###

import sys
from sys import exit
from collections import deque
from copy import deepcopy
from bisect import bisect_left, bisect_right, insort_left, insort_right
from heapq import heapify, heappop, heappush
from itertools import product, permutations, combinations, combinations_with_replacement
from functools import reduce
from math import gcd, sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, degrees, radians

sys.setrecursionlimit(10**6)
INF = 10**20
eps = 1.0e-20
MOD = 10**9+7

def lcm(x,y):
    return x*y//gcd(x,y)
def lgcd(l):
    return reduce(gcd,l)
def llcm(l):
    return reduce(lcm,l)
def powmod(n,i,mod=MOD):
    return pow(n,mod-1+i,mod) if i<0 else pow(n,i,mod)
def div2(x):
    return x.bit_length()
def div10(x):
    return len(str(x))-(x==0)
def intput():
    return int(input())
def mint():
    return map(int,input().split())
def lint():
    return list(map(int,input().split()))
def ilint():
    return int(input()), list(map(int,input().split()))
def judge(x, l=['Yes', 'No']):
    print(l[0] if x else l[1])
def lprint(l, sep='\n'):
    for x in l:
        print(x, end=sep)
def ston(c, c0='a'):
    return ord(c)-ord(c0)
def ntos(x, c0='a'):
    return chr(x+ord(c0))
class counter(dict):
    def __init__(self, *args):
        super().__init__(args)
    def add(self,x,d=1):
        self.setdefault(x,0)
        self[x] += d
    def list(self):
        l = []
        for k in self:
            l.extend([k]*self[k])
        return l
class comb():
    def __init__(self, n, mod=None):
        self.l = [1]
        self.n = n
        self.mod = mod
    def get(self,k):
        l,n,mod = self.l, self.n, self.mod
        k = n-k if k>n//2 else k
        while len(l)<=k:
            i = len(l)
            l.append(l[i-1]*(n+1-i)//i if mod==None else (l[i-1]*(n+1-i)*powmod(i,-1,mod))%mod)
        return l[k]
def pf(x,mode='counter'):
    C = counter()
    p = 2
    while x>1:
        k = 0
        while x%p==0:
            x //= p
            k += 1
        if k>0:
            C.add(p,k)
        p = p+2-(p==2) if p*p<x else x
    if mode=='counter':
        return C
    S = set([1])
    for k in C:
        T = deepcopy(S)
        for x in T:
            for i in range(1,C[k]+1):
                S.add(x*(k**i))
    if mode=='set':
        return S
    if mode=='list':
        return sorted(list(S))

######################################################

N=intput()
node=[list() for _ in range(N+1)]
done=[False]*(N+1)
c=[set() for _ in range(N+1)]
ans=[0]*(N-1)
S=dict()
for i in range(N-1):
    u,v=mint()
    node[u].append(v)
    node[v].append(u)
    S[(u,v)]=i
    S[(v,u)]=i
q=deque([1])
done[1]=True
while q:
    u=q.popleft()
    for v in node[u]:
        if not done[v]:
            i=1
            while i in c[u] or i in c[v]:
                i+=1
            c[u].add(i)
            c[v].add(i)
            ans[S[(u,v)]]=i
            done[v]=True
            q.append(v)
print(max(ans))
lprint(ans)

### FIXED CODE ###

import sys
from sys import exit
from collections import deque
from copy import deepcopy
from bisect import bisect_left, bisect_right, insort_left, insort_right
from heapq import heapify, heappop, heappush
from itertools import product, permutations, combinations, combinations_with_replacement
from functools import reduce
from math import gcd, sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, degrees, radians

sys.setrecursionlimit(10**6)
INF = 10**20
eps = 1.0e-20
MOD = 10**9+7

def lcm(x,y):
    return x*y//gcd(x,y)
def lgcd(l):
    return reduce(gcd,l)
def llcm(l):
    return reduce(lcm,l)
def powmod(n,i,mod=MOD):
    return pow(n,mod-1+i,mod) if i<0 else pow(n,i,mod)
def div2(x):
    return x.bit_length()
def div10(x):
    return len(str(x))-(x==0)
def intput():
    return int(input())
def mint():
    return map(int,input().split())
def lint():
    return list(map(int,input().split()))
def ilint():
    return int(input()), list(map(int,input().split()))
def judge(x, l=['Yes', 'No']):
    print(l[0] if x else l[1])
def lprint(l, sep='\n'):
    for x in l:
        print(x, end=sep)
def ston(c, c0='a'):
    return ord(c)-ord(c0)
def ntos(x, c0='a'):
    return chr(x+ord(c0))
class counter(dict):
    def __init__(self, *args):
        super().__init__(args)
    def add(self,x,d=1):
        self.setdefault(x,0)
        self[x] += d
    def list(self):
        l = []
        for k in self:
            l.extend([k]*self[k])
        return l
class comb():
    def __init__(self, n, mod=None):
        self.l = [1]
        self.n = n
        self.mod = mod
    def get(self,k):
        l,n,mod = self.l, self.n, self.mod
        k = n-k if k>n//2 else k
        while len(l)<=k:
            i = len(l)
            l.append(l[i-1]*(n+1-i)//i if mod==None else (l[i-1]*(n+1-i)*powmod(i,-1,mod))%mod)
        return l[k]
def pf(x,mode='counter'):
    C = counter()
    p = 2
    while x>1:
        k = 0
        while x%p==0:
            x //= p
            k += 1
        if k>0:
            C.add(p,k)
        p = p+2-(p==2) if p*p<x else x
    if mode=='counter':
        return C
    S = set([1])
    for k in C:
        T = deepcopy(S)
        for x in T:
            for i in range(1,C[k]+1):
                S.add(x*(k**i))
    if mode=='set':
        return S
    if mode=='list':
        return sorted(list(S))

######################################################

N=intput()
node=[list() for _ in range(N+1)]
done=[False]*(N+1)
color=[0]*(N+1)
ans=[0]*(N-1)
S=dict()
for i in range(N-1):
    u,v=mint()
    node[u].append(v)
    node[v].append(u)
    S[(u,v)]=i
    S[(v,u)]=i
q=deque([1])
done[1]=True
while q:
    u=q.popleft()
    c=1
    for v in node[u]:
        if not done[v]:
            if c==color[u]:
                c+=1
            color[v]=c
            ans[S[(u,v)]]=c
            done[v]=True
            q.append(v)
            c+=1
print(max(ans))
lprint(ans)