The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 5
Then he would steal away from his mother’s side, and finding the muddiest place in the yard, would roll about in it and thoroughly enjoy himself.
Who acts: mud, finding · What happens: steal away, find, roll about, enjoy · To what, where: muddiest place, mud
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 (mud, finding), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 steal | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 steal | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 steal | aux |
| 4 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 steal | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 mother | case |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 away | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 roll | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 roll | cc |
| 13 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 roll | csubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 15 | muddiest | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 place | amod |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finding | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 yard | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 yard | det |
| 19 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 finding | punct |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 roll | aux |
| 22 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 steal | advcl |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 roll | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 roll | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 enjoy | cc |
| 27 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 28 enjoy | advmod |
| 28 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 roll | conj |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 enjoy | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 steal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal away | would | mud | then | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | gerund | the muddiest place | in the yard | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | roll about | would | finding | in yard; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | infinitive | finding not said here | mud | thoroughly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
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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