The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 18

Before I die I should like to build a house for each of you, as this dear old sty in which we have lived so happily will be given to a new family of pigs, and you will have to turn out.

Who acts: I, we, you · What happens: die, like, build, live, give, have · To what, where: house, dear old sty, new family

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 (I, we, you), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 die	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 die	nsubj
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 like	advcl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 build	mark
8	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 like	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 build	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 build	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 each	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sty	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	20 sty	case
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 sty	nsubj
18	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sty	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sty	amod
20	sty	sty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 build	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 lived	obl
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 lived	nsubj
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 lived	aux
25	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 sty	acl
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 happily	advmod
27	happily	happily	ADV	_	30 given	advmod
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 given	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 given	aux:pass
30	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 lived	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 family	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 family	det
33	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 family	amod
34	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 given	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 pigs	case
36	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 family	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 have	cc
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 have	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 have	aux
41	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 lived	parataxis
42	to	to	PART	_	43 turn	mark
43	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 have	xcomp
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 turn	compound:prt
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	present	I					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	like	should	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	build not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a house			for each; as dear old sty	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent house=Product for each=Asset
4	live	present · perfect	we			dear old sty		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
5	give	future · passive	we not said here		a new family of pigs		happily property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to family=Recipient
6	have	future	you					tree rules
7	turn out	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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