The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 17
‘My children, I feel that I am growing odd and weak, and that I shall not live long.
Who acts: children, I · What happens: feel, grow, not live
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 (children, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 children | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 children | nmod:poss |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 children | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 growing | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 growing | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 growing | aux |
| 10 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 feel | advcl |
| 11 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 growing | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 weak | cc |
| 13 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 odd | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 live | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 live | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 live | advmod |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 feel | conj |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 live | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | My children | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | grow | present · progressive | I | odd property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not live | shall | I | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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 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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