English Fairy Tales, XIV. Three Little Pigs., sentence 7
In Steel and Temple's “Lambikin” (_Wide-awake Stories_, p. 71), the Lambikin gets inside a Drumikin, and so nearly escapes the jackal.
Who acts: Lambikin · What happens: get, escape · To what, where: Drumikin, jackal
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 (Lambikin), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Steel | case |
| 2 | Steel | Steel | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Temple | cc |
| 4 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Steel | conj |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Temple | case |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lambikin | punct |
| 7 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Steel | appos |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lambikin | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 Stories | punct |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Stories | punct |
| 11 | Wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 awake | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wide | punct |
| 13 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Stories | amod |
| 14 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Lambikin | appos |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Stories | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 p. | punct |
| 17 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lambikin | appos |
| 18 | 71 | 71 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 p. | flat |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 p. | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gets | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Lambikin | det |
| 22 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gets | nsubj |
| 23 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Lambikin | parataxis |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 26 Drumikin | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Drumikin | det |
| 26 | Drumikin | Drumikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gets | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 escapes | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 escapes | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 escapes | advmod |
| 30 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 31 escapes | advmod |
| 31 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 gets | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 jackal | det |
| 33 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 escapes | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lambikin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the Lambikin | a Drumikin | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | escape | present | the Lambikin not said here | the jackal | nearly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jackal=Initial_Location |
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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