The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 28
So the next day she took out the pigs, and found them such good feeding grounds that they grew fatter every day.
Who acts: Lion, pigs · What happens: take out, find, grow · To what, where: pigs
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, pigs), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pigs | det |
| 9 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grounds | amod |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grounds | amod |
| 16 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grounds | compound |
| 17 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 found | obj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 grew | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | conj |
| 21 | fatter | fat | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 grew | xcomp |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | Lion | the pigs | day | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | pigs = pig | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme grounds=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | pigs = pig | day | fat property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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