English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 36
Well, the little pig got up at five, and got the turnips before the wolf came (which he did about six) and who said:
Who acts: little pig, wolf · What happens: get up, get, come, say · To what, where: five, turnips, six · 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, wolf), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pig | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pig | amod |
| 5 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 got | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 five | case |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 got | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 turnips | det |
| 14 | turnips | turnip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 got | obj |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wolf | det |
| 17 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 got | advcl |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 six | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 six | nsubj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 six | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 six | aux |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 six | advmod |
| 24 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 came | obl |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 six | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 said | nsubj |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the little pig | five | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the little pig not said here | the turnips | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turnip=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the wolf | six | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | 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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