The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 58
‘No, no, Mister Fox,’ replied Blacky, ‘I am not going to open my door to you.
Who acts: Mister, I · What happens: reply, not go, open · To what, where: Blacky, door, you
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 (Mister, I), 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 | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 Mister | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mister | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 Mister | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mister | punct |
| 6 | Mister | Mister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mister | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ’ | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mister | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 going | advmod |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 open | mark |
| 19 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | xcomp |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 door | nmod:poss |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 open | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 open | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Mister | Blacky | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blacky=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not go | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | open | to-infinitive | I not said here | my door | you | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to you=Recipient |
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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