The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 9
She was always thinking of her food, and looking forward to her dinner; and when the farm girl was seen carrying the pails across the yard, she would rise up on her hind legs and dance and caper with excitement.
Who acts: Whitey, farm girl · What happens: think, look, see, carry, rise up · To what, where: farm girl, pails, hind legs
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, farm girl), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 thinking | advmod |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 food | nmod:poss |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looking | cc |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thinking | conj |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 looking | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 dinner | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 seen | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 seen | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 19 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 girl | compound |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thinking | ccomp |
| 23 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 seen | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pails | det |
| 25 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 carrying | obj |
| 26 | across | across | ADP | _ | 28 yard | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 yard | det |
| 28 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carrying | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rise | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 rise | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 rise | aux |
| 32 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seen | parataxis |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 rise | compound:prt |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 legs | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 legs | nmod:poss |
| 36 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 legs | amod |
| 37 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rise | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 dance | cc |
| 39 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 legs | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 caper | cc |
| 41 | caper | caper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 legs | conj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 excitement | case |
| 43 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 caper | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | Whitey | of Whitey's food; always property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Whitey not said here | to Whitey's dinner; forward property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to dinner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | the farm girl | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | the farm girl not said here | the pails | across the yard | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Theme | |||
| 5 | rise up | would | Whitey | Whitey's hind legs and dance and caper with excitement | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
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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