The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 32

And the little pigs readily promised, for they had always had a great fear of the fox, of whom they had heard many terrible tales.

Who acts: little pigs, friends · What happens: promise, have, hear, fear · To what, where: great fear, many terrible tales, fox

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 (little pigs, friends), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 promised	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pigs	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pigs	amod
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 promised	nsubj
5	readily	readily	ADV	_	6 promised	advmod
6	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	aux
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 had	advmod
12	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 promised	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fear	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fear	amod
15	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 fox	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fox	det
18	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fear	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 whom	case
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 heard	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	aux
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 had	conj
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tales	amod
26	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tales	amod
27	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heard	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the little pigs		readily property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have	past · perfect	friends = friend	a great fear of the fox	always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient
3	hear	past · perfect	friends = friend	many terrible tales		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
4	fear			the fox		nom fear «feeling 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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