The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 2

The eldest of the little pigs was called Browny, the second Whitey, and the youngest and best looking Blacky.

What happens: call, look · To what, where: eldest, Blacky · 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: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 called	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 pigs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pigs	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pigs	amod
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eldest	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	aux:pass
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Whitey	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Whitey	det
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 Whitey	amod
13	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Browny	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 youngest	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 youngest	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youngest	det
17	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 called	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 best	cc
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 youngest	conj
20	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 best	advcl
21	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 looking	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past · passive		the eldest of the little pigs					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	look	gerund		Blacky					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme blacky=Attribute

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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