English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 53
“Oh yes,” said the pig, “I will go; what time shall you be ready?”
Who acts: pig, time · What happens: say, go, be · 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 (pig, time), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pig | det |
| 8 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 ready | punct |
| 15 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ready | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 ready | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 ready | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ready | cop |
| 20 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 go | advcl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the pig | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | the pig = pig | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | what time | ready 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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