The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 67
He had just reached the top of a hill, and could see his own little house nestling at the foot of it among the trees.
Who acts: thought, own little house · What happens: reach, see, nestle · To what, where: top, own little house, foot
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 (thought, own little house), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hill | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hill | det |
| 9 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reached | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 18 | nestling | nestle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 house | acl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 foot | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 foot | det |
| 21 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nestling | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 foot | nmod |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 trees | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trees | det |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 nestling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | thought | the top of a hill | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | could | thought not said here | thought's own little house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | nestle | gerund | thought's own little house not said here | the foot of foot | among the trees | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location |
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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