The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 50
‘Please don’t touch it,’ cried Whitey in great distress.
What happens: not touch, cry · To what, where: dinner, great distress
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: 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 touch | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 touch | discourse |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 touch | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 touch | advmod |
| 5 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touch | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 touch | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 touch | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Whitey | Whitey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | flat |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 distress | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 distress | amod |
| 13 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | infinitive · do-support | dinner | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | great distress | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distress=Location |
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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