The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 65
As he was walking home with it slung over his shoulder, he heard a sound of steps stealthily creeping after him.
Who acts: Blacky, kettle, steps · What happens: walk, sling, hear, creep · To what, where: shoulder, sound
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, kettle, steps), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 walking | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walking | aux |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 heard | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 walking | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 8 slung | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 slung | nsubj |
| 8 | slung | sling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walking | advcl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 shoulder | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slung | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walking | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 steps | case |
| 18 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sound | nmod |
| 19 | stealthily | stealthily | ADV | _ | 20 creeping | advmod |
| 20 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 steps | acl |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 creeping | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | Blacky | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sling | past | kettle | Blacky's shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Blacky | a sound of steps | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | creep | gerund | steps not said here | after Blacky | stealthily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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