The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 73
We shall soon see about that, my friend,’ and very quietly and stealthily he prowled round the house looking for some way to climb on to the roof.
Who acts: We, thought, house · What happens: see, prowl, look, climb · To what, where: house, roof
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 (We, thought, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 see | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 quietly | cc |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 quietly | advmod |
| 14 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 prowled | cc |
| 16 | stealthily | stealthily | ADV | _ | 18 prowled | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 prowled | nsubj |
| 18 | prowled | prowl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 quietly | conj |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prowled | obl |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 house | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looking | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 climb | mark |
| 27 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 way | acl |
| 28 | on | on | ADV | _ | 27 climb | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 roof | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 roof | det |
| 31 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 climb | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | shall | We | about that; quietly, soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | prowl | past | thought | the house | stealthily property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | the house not said here | for some way | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for way=Theme | ||||
| 4 | climb | to-infinitive | the house not said here | the roof | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to roof=Destination |
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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