English Fairy Tales, XIV. Three Little Pigs., sentence 4
_, punt. iii. p. 65, given in Crane, _Italian Popular Tales_, p. 267, “The Three Goslings;” and a negro tale in _Lippincott's Magazine_, December, 1877, p. 753 (“Tiny Pig”).
Who acts: you · What happens: punt, give · To what, where: iii, p., Crane
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. 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 (you), 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 punt | punct |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 punt | punct |
| 3 | punt | punt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 punt | punct |
| 5 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 3 punt | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 punt | punct |
| 7 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 punt | obj |
| 8 | 65 | 65 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 p. | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 p. | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Crane | case |
| 12 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tales | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tales | punct |
| 15 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Tales | amod |
| 16 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Tales | amod |
| 17 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 p. | appos |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 Tales | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 p. | punct |
| 20 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 p. | conj |
| 21 | 267 | 267 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 p. | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Goslings | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Goslings | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Goslings | det |
| 25 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 Goslings | nummod |
| 26 | Goslings | gosling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 p. | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 punt | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 punt | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 tale | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 tale | det |
| 31 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tale | compound |
| 32 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 punt | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Magazine | case |
| 34 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Lippincott | compound |
| 35 | Lippincott | Lippincott | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Magazine | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 Lippincott | case |
| 37 | Magazine | Magazine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 tale | nmod |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Magazine | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 December | punct |
| 40 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Magazine | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 1877 | punct |
| 42 | 1877 | 1877 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 December | appos |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 p. | punct |
| 44 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Magazine | conj |
| 45 | 753 | 753 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 44 p. | flat |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 49 Pig | punct |
| 47 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 Pig | punct |
| 48 | Tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Pig | amod |
| 49 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 p. | appos |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 Pig | punct |
| 51 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 49 Pig | punct |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 punt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punt | imperative | you not said here | iii | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent iii=Destination p.=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | p. and p. and the Three Goslings not said here | Crane | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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