The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 11

But he wants my bacon! gree-ee-ee!"

Who acts: Pig, gree · What happens: want, ee · To what, where: bacon

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sheep and the Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pig, gree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 wants	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bacon	nmod:poss
5	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 ee	punct
7	gree	gree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ee	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 gree	punct
9	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ee	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ee	punct
11	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	parataxis
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 ee	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 ee	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Pig	my bacon					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bacon=Theme
2	ee		gree						tree rules

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.

Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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