The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 8
Whitey was quite a clever little pig, but she was greedy.
Who acts: Whitey · What happens: be · To what, where: clever little pig
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 (Whitey), 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 | Whitey | Whitey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pig | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pig | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 pig | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pig | det |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pig | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pig | amod |
| 7 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 greedy | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 greedy | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 greedy | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 greedy | cop |
| 12 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pig | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Whitey | quite clever little pig | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Whitey | greedy property | tree rules |
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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