The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 30
When he hears that I am dead, he is sure to try and get hold of you, to carry you off to his den.
Who acts: fox, I · What happens: hear, be, try, get, carry off, hold · To what, where: hold, you, den · 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 (fox, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 hears | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 dead | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hears | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 try | mark |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sure | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | conj |
| 16 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 hold | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carry | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 carry | mark |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 carry | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 carry | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 den | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 den | nmod:poss |
| 26 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carry | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | fox | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | fox | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | fox not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | get | infinitive | fox not said here | hold of you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | carry off | to-infinitive | fox not said here | you | fox's den | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to den=Destination | |||
| 7 | hold | you | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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