The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 19

Now, Browny, what sort of a house would you like to have?’

Who acts: Browny · What happens: like, have, sort · To what, where: house

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 (Browny), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 like	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 like	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sort	punct
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 sort	det
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Browny	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 like	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	like	would	Browny		now	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	Browny not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sort			a house		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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