English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 2
There was an old sow with three little pigs, and as she had not enough to keep them, she sent them out to seek their fortune.
Who acts: old sow, sow · What happens: be, keep, send out, seek · To what, where: pigs, fortune
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of 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 (old sow, sow), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sow | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sow | amod |
| 5 | sow | sow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pigs | case |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pigs | nummod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pigs | amod |
| 9 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sow | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sent | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 enough | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 enough | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 enough | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 enough | advmod |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sent | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 keep | mark |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 enough | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 keep | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 enough | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sent | nsubj |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sent | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 sent | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 seek | mark |
| 26 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sent | advcl |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seek | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a old sow with three little pigs | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | sow not said here | pigs = pig | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send out | past | sow | pigs = pig | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | sow not said here | pigs's fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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