The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 46

“Where do all these pigs come from, and how did you get them?” asked the old man in surprise, when his son knocked at the door of the hut he had left only the day before.

Who acts: pigs, you, old man, son · What happens: come, get, ask, knock, leave · To what, where: pigs, hut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigs, you, old man, son), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 do	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 pigs	det:predet
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 pigs	det
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 asked	parataxis
8	from	from	ADP	_	7 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 get	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 surprise	case
23	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 man	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knocked	punct
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 knocked	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod:poss
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knocked	nsubj
28	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 asked	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 door	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 door	det
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knocked	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 hut	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hut	det
34	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 door	nmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 left	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 left	aux
37	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 hut	acl:relcl
38	only	only	ADV	_	40 day	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 day	det
40	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 left	obl
41	before	before	ADV	_	37 left	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · do-support	all pigs				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get in a quote	past · do-support	you	pigs = pig			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	past	the old man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	knock	past	youth's son			at the door of the hut	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
5	leave	past · perfect	son	the hut not said here	day	before property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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