The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 72

‘Oho!’ exclaimed the fox to himself, ‘you think you will escape me that way, do you?

Who acts: you · What happens: exclaim, think, escape, do · To what, where: fox, thought, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
2	Oho	oho	INTJ	_	5 exclaimed	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oho	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 exclaimed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 exclaimed	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 escape	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 escape	aux
16	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 think	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 escape	obj
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 escape	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 escape	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 do	iobj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past		the fox	thought		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Topic to himself=Recipient
2	think speech: other	present	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	escape	future	you	me		that way obl:unmarked	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_Location
4	do	infinitive	you not said here		you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality

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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