English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 33
“Very well,” said the little pig, “I will be ready.
Who acts: little pig · What happens: say, be · 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 (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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pig | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pig | amod |
| 9 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ready | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ready | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | cop |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the little pig | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | future | the little pig = pig | ready property | 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: «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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