The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 24
‘And you, Blacky?’ turning to her youngest son, ‘what sort of a house shall I order for you?’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: turn, order, sort · To what, where: sort, 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 (you, I), 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 | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 you | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 turning | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Blacky | punct |
| 5 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 you | appos |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 Blacky | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 8 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 order | csubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 son | amod |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turning | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sort | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sort | punct |
| 15 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 16 sort | det |
| 16 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turning | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sort | nmod |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 order | aux |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 order | nsubj |
| 22 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 order | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 order | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | you | what sort of a house | to pig's youngest son result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to son=Result | |||
| 2 | order | shall | I | for you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 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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