The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 26
‘That is a sensible little pig,’ replied his mother, looking fondly at him.
Who acts: That, sensible little pig · What happens: be, reply, look · To what, where: sensible little pig, mother
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 (That, sensible little 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pig | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 pig | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pig | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pig | det |
| 5 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pig | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pig | amod |
| 7 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pig | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pig | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | advcl |
| 15 | fondly | fondly | ADV | _ | 14 looking | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a sensible little pig | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | a sensible little pig | Blacky's mother | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | a sensible little pig not said here | at Blacky; fondly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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