The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 83

On the way they passed a great bog, and the Pig ordered the carriage to stop, and got out and rolled about in the mire till he was covered with mud from head to foot; then he got back into the carriage and told his wife to kiss him.

Who acts: ways, Pig, carriage, father · What happens: pass, order, stop, get out, roll about, cover · To what, where: great bog, way, carriage, mire, father, head · 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 (ways, Pig, carriage, father), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 passed	nsubj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bog	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bog	amod
8	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ordered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ordered	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pig	det
12	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ordered	nsubj
13	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 carriage	det
15	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ordered	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stop	mark
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ordered	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	parataxis
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 got	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rolled	cc
23	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 got	conj
24	about	about	ADV	_	23 rolled	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 mire	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mire	det
27	mire	mire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rolled	obl
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 covered	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 covered	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 covered	aux:pass
31	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 rolled	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 mud	case
33	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 covered	obl
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 head	case
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 covered	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 foot	case
37	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 covered	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 got	punct
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 got	advmod
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 got	nsubj
41	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	parataxis
42	back	back	ADV	_	41 got	advmod
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 carriage	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 carriage	det
45	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 got	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 told	cc
47	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 got	conj
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 wife	nmod:poss
49	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 told	iobj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 kiss	mark
51	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 told	xcomp
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 kiss	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	ways = way	a great bog		the way			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bog=Theme on way=Destination
2	order	past	the Pig	the carriage					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent carriage=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	the carriage not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	get out	past						out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	roll about	past				the mire		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mire=Trajectory
6	cover	past · passive		father		head		with mud; to foot	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mud=Theme
7	get back	past	father			the carriage	then		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination
8	tell speech: assert	past	father not said here		father's wife				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
9	kiss not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	father					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

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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