The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 14

He was much cleverer than Browny and Whitey, and his mother’s heart used to swell with pride when she heard the farmer’s friends say to each other that some day the little black fellow would be a prize pig.

Who acts: Blacky, heart, friends, day · What happens: be, use, swell, hear, say · To what, where: each, prize pig · Speech: someone speaks here

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, heart, friends, day), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cleverer	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cleverer	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 cleverer	advmod
4	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 Browny	case
6	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cleverer	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Whitey	cc
8	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Browny	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 used	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heart	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 mother	case
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 used	nsubj
15	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cleverer	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 swell	mark
17	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 used	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 pride	case
19	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swell	obl
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 heard	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 used	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 farmer	det
24	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 friends	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 farmer	case
26	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 say	nsubj
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 each	case
29	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	27 say	obl
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 each	fixed
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 pig	mark
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pig	nsubj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fellow	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fellow	amod
36	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fellow	amod
37	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pig	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 pig	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 pig	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 pig	det
41	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pig	compound
42	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cleverer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Blacky			than Browny and Whitey; clever property	tree rules
2	use	past	Blacky's mother's heart				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	swell	to-infinitive	Blacky's mother's heart not said here			with pride	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	hear	past	heart				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	present	the farmer's friends		each		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
6	is a	would	some day	a prize 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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