The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 45
‘We shall soon see who is master here,’ and with his paws he set to work and scraped a large hole in the soft mud walls.
Who acts: We, way · What happens: see, be, set, work, scrape · To what, where: master, paws, large hole, soft mud walls · 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 (We, way), 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 | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 master | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 master | cop |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | ccomp |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 paws | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 paws | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 paws | nmod:poss |
| 15 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 paws | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 work | mark |
| 19 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 set | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 scraped | cc |
| 21 | scraped | scrape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hole | det |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hole | amod |
| 24 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 scraped | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 walls | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 walls | det |
| 27 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 walls | amod |
| 28 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 walls | compound |
| 29 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 scraped | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | shall | We | here | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is a | present | master | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | set | past | way | Master's paws not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | way not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | scrape | past | way not said here | a large hole | the soft mud walls | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in wall=Trajectory |
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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