The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 23
‘Foolish, foolish child!’ said the mother pig, looking quite distressed.
Who acts: Foolish foolish child · What happens: say, look, distress · To what, where: mother 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 (Foolish foolish child), 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 | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 2 | Foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Foolish | punct |
| 4 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pig | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pig | compound |
| 11 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 distressed | advmod |
| 15 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 looking | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Foolish foolish child | the mother pig | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pig=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Foolish foolish child not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | distress | participle | Foolish foolish child not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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