The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 85
She bethought herself of her father’s words, and, pulling out her pocket handkerchief, she gently wiped the Pig’s snout and kissed it.
Who acts: pig, father · What happens: bethink, pull out, wipe, kiss, word · To what, where: pig, pocket handkerchief, snout
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 (pig, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bethought | nsubj |
| 2 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 bethought | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bethought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulling | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pulling | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulling | punct |
| 12 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 bethought | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 pulling | compound:prt |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 15 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 handkerchief | compound | ||
| 16 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulling | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wiped | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wiped | nsubj |
| 19 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 20 wiped | advmod |
| 20 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bethought | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Pig | det |
| 22 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 snout | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Pig | case |
| 24 | snout | snout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wiped | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 kissed | cc |
| 26 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wiped | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kissed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | pig | pig | of pig's father's words | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pull out | gerund | pig not said here | pig's pocket handkerchief | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wipe | past | pig | the Pig's snout | gently property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent snout=Source | |||
| 4 | kiss | past | pig not said here | snout | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | word | pig's father | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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