The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 4
He was never so happy as on a wet day, when the mud in the farmyard got soft, and thick, and slab.
Who acts: eldest, mud · What happens: not be, get
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 (eldest, mud), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | cop |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 happy | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 happy | advmod |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happy | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 got | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mud | det |
| 14 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 farmyard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 farmyard | det |
| 17 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mud | nmod |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | conj |
| 19 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 got | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thick | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thick | cc |
| 22 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 got | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 slab | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 slab | cc |
| 25 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thick | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | eldest = eld | day | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past | the mud in the farmyard | soft, thick property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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