English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 47
Are they nice apples?”
Who acts: pigs · What happens: be · To what, where: nice apples
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 (pigs), 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 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 apples | cop |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 apples | nsubj |
| 3 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 apples | amod |
| 4 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 apples | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 apples | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | pigs = pig | nice apples | 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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