English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 3
I will go to market, and buy a little pig.”
Who acts: I · What happens: go, buy · To what, where: market, little pig
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Old Woman and Her Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 market | case |
| 5 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 buy | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 buy | cc |
| 8 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pig | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pig | amod |
| 11 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buy | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | buy | infinitive | I not said here | a little pig | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=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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