English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 21
The third little pig met a man with a load of bricks, and said:
Who acts: third little pig · What happens: meet, say · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (third little pig), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pig | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 pig | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pig | amod |
| 4 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 load | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 load | det |
| 10 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bricks | case |
| 12 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 load | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the third little pig | a man | with a load of bricks | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme with load=Instrument | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the third little pig not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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: «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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