The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 55
The next day the fox started off for Blacky’s house, because he had made up his mind that he would get the three little pigs together in his den, and then kill them, and invite all his friends to a feast.
Who acts: fox · What happens: start off, make up, get, kill, invite, mind · To what, where: mind, three little pigs, den, walls, friends
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 (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 | 6 started | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 started | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 9 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Blacky | case |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 made | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 started | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 made | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 made | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pigs | det |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 pigs | nummod |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pigs | amod |
| 27 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 get | obj |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 get | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 den | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 den | nmod:poss |
| 31 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 kill | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 kill | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 kill | advmod |
| 35 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | parataxis |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 kill | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 invite | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 invite | cc |
| 39 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 kill | conj |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 friends | det:predet |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 friends | nmod:poss |
| 42 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 invite | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 feast | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 feast | det |
| 45 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 friends | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | the fox | day | for Blacky's house | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | make up | past · perfect | fox | fox's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | get | would | fox | the three little pigs | fox's den | together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pig=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | walls = wall | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | invite | infinitive | fox's friends | to a feast | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | mind | fox | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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