The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 12
Blacky was a good, nice little pig, neither dirty nor greedy.
Who acts: Blacky · What happens: be · To what, where: good nice little pig
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 (Blacky), 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 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pig | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pig | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pig | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pig | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pig | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pig | amod |
| 8 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dirty | punct |
| 10 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 dirty | cc:preconj |
| 11 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pig | parataxis |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 greedy | cc |
| 13 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dirty | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Blacky | a good nice little pig | tree rules |
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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