The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 27
The three girls entered, and what do you think they saw?
Who acts: three girls, you, girls · What happens: enter, think, see · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three girls, you, girls), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girls | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 girls | nummod |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 think | cc |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 think | obj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 entered | advcl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the three girls | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | girls = girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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