The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 60
You have carried off poor Browny and Whitey, but you are not going to get me.’
Who acts: poor Browny, you · What happens: carry off, not go, get · To what, where: You, 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 (poor Browny, you), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 carried | compound:prt |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Browny | amod |
| 6 | Browny | Browny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl:agent |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Whitey | cc |
| 8 | Whitey | Whitey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Browny | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 going | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 going | advmod |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 carried | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 going | xcomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | present · perfect · passive | poor Browny and Whitey | You | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not go | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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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