English Fairy Tales, XIV. Three Little Pigs., sentence 6
This would bring the tale close to the Grimms' “Wolf and Seven Little Kids,” (No. 5).
Who acts: This · What happens: bring · To what, where: tale
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | aux |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obj |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tale | amod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Wolf | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Grimms | det |
| 9 | Grimms | grimm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Wolf | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 Grimms | case |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wolf | punct |
| 12 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Kids | cc |
| 14 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Kids | nummod |
| 15 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Kids | amod |
| 16 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Wolf | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 No. | punct |
| 20 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 3 bring | parataxis |
| 21 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 No. | flat |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 No. | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | would | This | the tale | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
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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