English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 22
“Please, man, give me those bricks to build a house with.”
Who acts: man · What happens: give, build · To what, where: bricks, third little pig, house
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 (man), 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 | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 4 man | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Please | punct |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 bricks | det |
| 9 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 build | mark |
| 11 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bricks | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 build | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 build | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | man | that bricks | the third little pig = pig | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient brick=Theme | |||
| 2 | build in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | a house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
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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