English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 41
“Little pig, I know where there is a nice apple-tree.”
Who acts: wolf, nice apple tree · What happens: know, be · To what, where: Little pig · 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 (wolf, nice apple tree), 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 | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pig | acl:relcl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 is | advmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tree | amod |
| 12 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 apple | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pig | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | wolf | Little pig not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | a nice apple tree | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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