The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 47
The next day, as Whitey was munching a few leaves of cabbage out of the corner of her house, the fox stole up to her door, determined to carry her off to join her brother in his den.
Who acts: Whitey, fox · What happens: munch, steal up, determine, carry off, join · To what, where: few leaves, corner, Whitey, brother, den
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 (Whitey, fox), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stole | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 munching | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 munching | mark |
| 6 | Whitey | Whitey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 munching | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 munching | aux |
| 8 | munching | munch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 day | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 leaves | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leaves | amod |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 munching | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cabbage | case |
| 13 | cabbage | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaves | nmod |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 corner | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 corner | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 corner | det |
| 17 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 munching | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 corner | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fox | det |
| 23 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stole | nsubj |
| 24 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 stole | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 door | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 door | nmod:poss |
| 28 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stole | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 determined | punct |
| 30 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 stole | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 carry | mark |
| 32 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 determined | xcomp |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 carry | obj |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 carry | compound:prt |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 join | mark |
| 36 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 carry | conj |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 brother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 join | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 den | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 den | nmod:poss |
| 41 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 join | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | munch | past · progressive | Whitey | a few leaves of cabbage | the corner of Whitey's house | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | |||
| 2 | steal up | past | the fox | day | to Whitey's door | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | determine | participle | the fox not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | carry off | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | Whitey | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | join | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | Whitey's brother | fox's den | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
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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