English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 5
Which the man did, and the little pig built a house with it.
Who acts: man, little pig · What happens: do, build · To what, where: house
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 (man, 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | obj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 built | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 built | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pig | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pig | amod |
| 9 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | nsubj |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 built | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | build | past | the little pig | a house | with house | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent house=Theme with it=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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