English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 46

“Little pig, what! are you here before me?

Who acts: Little pig · What happens: be

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	_	3 pig	punct
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pig	amod
3	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 here	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 pig	nmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 pig	punct
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 here	cop
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 here	nsubj
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 here	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Little pig				before wolf	here 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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