The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 21
‘And you, Whitey?’ said the mother pig in rather a sad voice, for she was disappointed that Browny had made so foolish a choice.
Who acts: pig, Browny · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: mother pig, sad voice · 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 (pig, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 you | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Whitey | punct |
| 5 | Whitey | Whitey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 you | appos |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Whitey | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Whitey | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pig | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pig | compound |
| 11 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 16 voice | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 disappointed | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 disappointed | case |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 disappointed | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 disappointed | cop |
| 21 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 23 | Browny | Browny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 made | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | aux |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 disappointed | advcl |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 foolish | advmod |
| 27 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 made | xcomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 choice | det |
| 29 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 foolish | nsubj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mother pig | a sad voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent pig=Theme in voice=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is | past | pig | disappointed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | Browny | foolish property | vn build-26.1-1 «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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