English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 25
“Little pig, little pig, let me come in.”
Who acts: Little pig, third little pig · What happens: let, come in · To what, where: third little pig
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 (Little pig, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pig | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pig | amod |
| 3 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pig | punct |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pig | amod |
| 6 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pig | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pig | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | Little pig | the third little pig = pig | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in in a quote | infinitive | the third little pig = pig not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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