The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 11

Her mother often scolded her for her selfishness, and told her that some day she would suffer for being so greedy and grabbing.

Who acts: mother, Whitey · What happens: scold, tell, suffer, be, grab · To what, where: Whitey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 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 (mother, Whitey), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scolded	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 scolded	advmod
4	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scolded	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 selfishness	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 selfishness	nmod:poss
8	selfishness	selfishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scolded	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scolded	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 suffer	mark
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 suffer	obl:unmarked
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 suffer	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 suffer	aux
18	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	xcomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 greedy	case
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 greedy	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 greedy	advmod
22	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 suffer	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grabbing	cc
24	grabbing	grab	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 greedy	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 scolded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	Whitey's mother	Whitey			for Whitey's selfishness; often property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for selfishness=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert	past	Whitey's mother not said here		Whitey			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	suffer not said to happen	would	Whitey			day		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	gerund					greedy property	tree rules
5	grab	gerund						vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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