Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 31
"A jolly old sow once lived in a sty, Three little piggies had she," &c.
Who acts: jolly old sow, Three little piggies · What happens: live, have · To what, where: sty, sow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jolly old sow, Three little piggies), 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 | _ | 7 lived | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sow | det |
| 3 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sow | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sow | amod |
| 5 | sow | sow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sty | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sty | det |
| 10 | sty | sty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 12 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 piggies | nummod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 piggies | amod |
| 14 | piggies | piggy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lived | conj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 c. | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 c. | punct |
| 19 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 20 c. | cc |
| 20 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | past | a jolly old sow | a sty | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sty=Location | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | Three little piggies | sow | c. obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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