The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 61
At this the fox was so angry that he dashed with all his force against the wall, and tried to knock it down.
Who acts: fox · What happens: be, dash, try, knock down · To what, where: force
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 fox | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fox | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 angry | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 angry | advmod |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 dashed | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dashed | nsubj |
| 10 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 force | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 force | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 force | nmod:poss |
| 14 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dashed | obl |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 wall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wall | det |
| 17 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 force | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tried | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tried | cc |
| 20 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 knock | mark |
| 22 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tried | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knock | obj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 knock | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | at this fox; angry property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dash | past | fox | with fox's force against the wall | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with force=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | try | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | knock down not said to happen | to-infinitive | force | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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