The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 15
Now the time came when the mother pig felt old and feeble and near her end.
Who acts: time, mother pig · What happens: come, feel
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 (time, mother 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 felt | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pig | det |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pig | compound |
| 8 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | advcl |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 felt | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 feeble | cc |
| 12 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 old | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 end | cc |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 end | nmod:poss |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 old | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the time | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the mother pig | old property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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