The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 20
‘A house of mud,’ replied Browny, looking longingly at a wet puddle in the corner of the yard.
Who acts: house · What happens: reply, look · To what, where: Browny
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 (house), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mud | case |
| 5 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 house | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 house | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 house | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Browny | Browny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 12 | longingly | longingly | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 puddle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 puddle | det |
| 15 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 puddle | amod |
| 16 | puddle | puddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 corner | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 corner | det |
| 19 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 puddle | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 yard | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 yard | det |
| 22 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 corner | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | a house of mud | Browny | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent browny=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | a house of mud not said here | at a wet puddle in the corner of the yard; longingly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at puddle=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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