English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 6
So she said to the dog: “Dog! bite pig; piggy won't go over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.”
Who acts: piggy · What happens: say, not go, not get · To what, where: dog, Dog bite pig, stile · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 dog | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 pig | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dog | punct |
| 9 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pig | compound |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dog | punct |
| 11 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pig | compound |
| 12 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | piggy | piggy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 go | advmod |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pig | acl:relcl |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 stile | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stile | det |
| 20 | stile | stile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 get | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 get | nsubj |
| 24 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 get | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 get | advmod |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 get | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 night | case |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 to | punct |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | piggy | the dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not go in a quote | future | piggy | Dog bite pig not said here | the stile | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pig=Theme | |||
| 3 | not get in a quote | piggy | night | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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