The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 95

She felt quite excited, as it was so long since she had seen a human being, and she called out to the old woman to come and talk to her.

Who acts: pig · What happens: feel, see, call out, be, come, talk · To what, where: escape, pig

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), 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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 excited	advmod
4	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seen	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux:pass
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 seen	advmod
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 felt	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 woman	det
16	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 woman	cop
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 called	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 called	nsubj
21	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 woman	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 called	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 woman	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woman	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seen	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 come	mark
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 woman	acl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 talk	cc
30	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 come	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 talk	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	pig			excited property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past · perfect · passive		escape		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	call out speech: assert	past	pig				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund				to a human old woman	tree rules
5	come	to-infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	talk	infinitive			pig		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=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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