The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 36
One day, as he was lying half asleep in the mud, he heard a soft knock at his door, and a gentle voice said:
Who acts: fox, gentle voice · What happens: lie, hear, say · To what, where: soft knock, door · 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, gentle voice), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lying | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 lying | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lying | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lying | aux |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | conj |
| 8 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 asleep | advmod |
| 9 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lying | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mud | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mud | det |
| 12 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asleep | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 knock | det |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 knock | amod |
| 18 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 door | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 door | nmod:poss |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 voice | det |
| 25 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 voice | amod |
| 26 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 heard | parataxis |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | fox | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | fox | a soft knock | fox's door | day | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a gentle voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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