The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 56

But when he reached the brick house, he found that the door was bolted and barred, so in his sly manner he began, ‘Do let me in, dear Blacky.

Who acts: fox · What happens: reach, find, bolt, bar, begin, let in · To what, where: brick house, door, sly manner, me

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
6	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	compound
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 bolted	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bolted	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bolted	aux:pass
15	bolted	bolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 found	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 barred	cc
17	barred	bar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 bolted	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	25 began	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 manner	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 manner	nmod:poss
22	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 manner	amod
23	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 began	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
28	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 let	aux
29	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	ccomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 let	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	29 let	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Blacky	punct
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Blacky	amod
34	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 let	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	fox	the brick house			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	find	past	fox				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	bolt	past · passive		the door			vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: subject=Patient
4	bar	participle					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
5	begin	past	fox		fox's sly manner		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	let in	infinitive · do-support	fox not said here	me		dear Blacky obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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