The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 22

‘A house of cabbage,’ answered Whitey, with a mouth full, and scarcely raising her snout out of the trough in which she was grubbing for some potato-parings.

Who acts: house · What happens: answer, raise, grub · To what, where: Whitey, snout, trough

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 (house), 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 house	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cabbage	case
5	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 house	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 house	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mouth	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 mouth	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mouth	det
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	parataxis
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mouth	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 raising	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 raising	cc
17	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	18 raising	advmod
18	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 answered	advcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 snout	nmod:poss
20	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 raising	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 trough	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 trough	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trough	det
24	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 raising	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 grubbing	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 grubbing	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 grubbing	aux
29	grubbing	grub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 trough	acl:relcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 parings	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 parings	det
32	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 parings	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 potato	punct
34	parings	paring	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grubbing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	a house of cabbage		Whitey			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent whitey=Eventuality
2	raise	gerund	a house of cabbage not said here	house's snout		the trough	scarcely property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent snout=Theme out trough=Destination
3	grub	past · progressive	house			the trough	for some potato parings	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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