The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 78

As he approached the den he heard piteous grunts and squeals from his poor little brother and sister who lived in constant terror of the fox killing and eating them.

Who acts: Blacky, poor little brother · What happens: approach, hear, live, eat · To what, where: den, piteous grunts, constant terror, grunts

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, poor little brother), 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	_	3 approached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 den	det
5	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grunts	amod
9	grunts	grunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heard	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 squeals	cc
11	squeals	squeal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grunts	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 brother	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brother	nmod:poss
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brother	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brother	amod
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grunts	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sister	cc
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brother	conj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lived	nsubj
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brother	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 terror	case
22	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 terror	amod
23	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lived	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 killing	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 killing	det
26	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 killing	compound
27	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 terror	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eating	cc
29	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 killing	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eating	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	Blacky	the den			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Theme
2	hear	past	Blacky	piteous grunts and squeals		from Blacky's poor little brother and sister	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent grunt=Topic from brother=Source
3	live	past	Blacky's poor little brother and sister		constant terror of the fox killing		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location
4	eat	gerund	Blacky's poor little brother and sister not said here	grunts = grunt			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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