The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 32
‘I want to make my pig eat some acorns, and I can’t get him to go up the tree.’
Who acts: I, pig · What happens: want, make, eat, not get, go up · To what, where: acorns, pig, tree
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pig | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | parataxis |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 acorns | det |
| 10 | acorns | acorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 14 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 get | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 get | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 go | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | eat | present | my pig | some acorns | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not get | can | I | pig | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go up | to-infinitive | pig not said here | the tree | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tree=Extent |
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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