The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 64
Next day Blacky had to go into the neighbouring town to do some marketing and to buy a big kettle.
Who acts: Blacky · What happens: have, go, neighbour, do, buy · To what, where: neighbouring town, marketing, big kettle
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 (Blacky), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 9 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 town | amod |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | advcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 marketing | det |
| 14 | marketing | marketing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 buy | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 buy | mark |
| 17 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 kettle | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kettle | amod |
| 20 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buy | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Blacky | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Blacky not said here | the neighbouring town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Blacky not said here | some marketing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marketing=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | buy | to-infinitive | Blacky not said here | a big kettle | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=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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