The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 10
As soon as the food was poured into the trough she jostled Blacky and Browny out of the way in her eagerness to get the best and biggest bits for herself.
Who acts: Whitey · What happens: pour, jostle, get · To what, where: food, trough, Blacky, way, best biggest bits
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whitey), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 jostled | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 poured | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 food | det |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 poured | aux:pass |
| 7 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 jostled | advcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 trough | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trough | det |
| 10 | trough | trough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 poured | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 jostled | nsubj |
| 12 | jostled | jostle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 jostled | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Browny | cc |
| 15 | Browny | Browny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Blacky | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jostled | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 eagerness | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eagerness | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jostled | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 jostled | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bits | det |
| 26 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 bits | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 biggest | cc |
| 28 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 bits | amod |
| 29 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 get | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 herself | case |
| 31 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 bits | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 jostled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past · passive | the food | the trough | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into trough=Destination | ||||
| 2 | jostle | past | Whitey | Blacky and Browny | the way | in Whitey's eagerness; soon property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Whitey not said here | the best biggest bits | for Whitey | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Theme for herself=Source |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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