English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 4
As she was coming home, she came to a stile: but the piggy wouldn't go over the stile.
Who acts: woman, piggy · What happens: come, not go · To what, where: stile
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 (woman, piggy), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 coming | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | aux |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 coming | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 stile | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stile | det |
| 11 | stile | stile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 go | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 piggy | det |
| 15 | piggy | piggy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 go | advmod |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | conj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 stile | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stile | det |
| 21 | stile | stile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | woman | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | woman | a stile | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stile=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not go | would | the piggy | the stile | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over stile=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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