The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 3
Now Browny was a very dirty little pig, and I am sorry to say spent most of his time rolling and wallowing about in the mud.
Who acts: Browny, I · What happens: be, say, spend, roll, wallow · To what, where: dirty little pig, most, mud · 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 (Browny, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:1061): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 pig | advmod |
| 2 | Browny | Browny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pig | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pig | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pig | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 dirty | advmod |
| 6 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pig | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pig | amod |
| 8 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spent | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sorry | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sorry | cop |
| 13 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spent | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 say | mark |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sorry | xcomp |
| 16 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pig | conj |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 spent | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 time | nmod:poss |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 most | nmod |
| 21 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 spent | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wallowing | cc |
| 23 | wallowing | wallow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 rolling | conj |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 wallowing | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 mud | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 mud | det |
| 27 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wallowing | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Browny | a dirty little pig | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | spend | past | Browny not said here | most of eldest's time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Asset | ||||
| 5 | roll | gerund | Browny not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wallow | gerund | Browny not said here | the mud | about property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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