The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 39
‘Who are you?’ said Browny, starting up in great fright, for though the voice sounded gentle, he felt sure it was a feigned voice, and he feared it was the fox.
Who acts: you, voice, fright · What happens: be, say, start up, sound, feel, feign · To what, where: great fright, feigned voice, fox · 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 (you, voice, fright), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Who | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Who | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Browny | Browny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 starting | punct |
| 10 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 starting | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fright | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fright | amod |
| 14 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 starting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sounded | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 sounded | mark |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 sounded | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sounded | nsubj |
| 20 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 21 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sounded | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 felt | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 felt | nsubj |
| 24 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 25 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 felt | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 voice | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 voice | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 voice | det |
| 29 | feigned | feign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 voice | amod |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sure | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 feared | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 feared | cc |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 feared | nsubj |
| 34 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 felt | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 fox | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 fox | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 fox | det |
| 38 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 feared | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | start up | gerund | great fright | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sound | past | the voice | gentle property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | voice | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | feign | participle | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is a | past | fright | a feigned voice | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fear | past | voice | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | is a | past | fright | the fox | tree rules |
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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