The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 38
‘I’m minding my pigs and donkeys; but what do you want?’ was the reply.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, mind, want · To what, where: pigs, reply
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 reply | punct |
| 4 | minding | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ’m | xcomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pigs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 minding | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 donkeys | cc |
| 8 | donkeys | donkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pigs | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 want | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 want | obj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 want | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ’m | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 reply | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reply | det |
| 19 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mind | gerund | I not said here | my pigs and donkeys | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the reply | 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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