The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 33
A short time afterwards the old pig died, and the little pigs went to live in their own houses.
Who acts: old pig, little pigs · What happens: die, go, live · To what, where: own houses
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 (old pig, little pigs), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pig | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pig | amod |
| 7 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pigs | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pigs | amod |
| 13 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 died | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 live | mark |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 houses | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 houses | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 houses | amod |
| 20 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 live | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the old pig | time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the little pigs | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | the little pigs not said here | friends's own houses | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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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