English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 39
I have been and come back again, and got a nice potful for dinner.”
Who acts: I · What happens: come back, get · To what, where: nice potful
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 potful | det |
| 12 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 potful | amod |
| 13 | potful | potful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 dinner | case |
| 15 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present · perfect | I | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | I not said here | a nice potful | for dinner | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent potful=Theme for dinner=Source |
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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