The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 76
‘My child, the words and whole behaviour of this Pig are quite unlike those of other pigs.
Who acts: child · What happens: be
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 (child), 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 | _ | 16 those | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 child | nmod:poss |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 those | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 child | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 behaviour | cc |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 behaviour | amod |
| 9 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 words | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Pig | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 Pig | det |
| 12 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 behaviour | nmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 those | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 those | advmod |
| 15 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 16 those | case |
| 16 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pigs | case |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pigs | amod |
| 19 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 those | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 those | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My child | unlike those; of other pigs | 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 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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