The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 79
But when they saw Blacky appear at the entrance to the den their joy knew no bounds.
Who acts: grunts, Blacky, joy · What happens: see, appear, know, joy · To what, where: Blacky, entrance, bounds
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 (grunts, Blacky, joy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:1123): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 knew | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 knew | advcl |
| 5 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 entrance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 entrance | det |
| 9 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appear | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 den | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 den | det |
| 12 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entrance | nmod |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 joy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 bounds | det |
| 17 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 knew | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | grunts = grunt | Blacky | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | infinitive | Blacky not said here | the entrance to the den | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at entrance=Location | ||||
| 3 | know | past | grunts's joy | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | joy | grunts = grunt | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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