The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 25

‘A house of brick, please mother, as it will be warm in winter, and cool in summer, and safe all the year round.’

Who acts: brick · What happens: be

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 (brick), 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 mother	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mother	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 brick	case
5	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 house	punct
7	please	please	INTJ	_	8 mother	discourse
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 warm	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 warm	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 warm	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 warm	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 warm	cop
14	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 winter	case
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 warm	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cool	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cool	cc
19	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 warm	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 summer	case
21	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cool	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 safe	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 safe	cc
24	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 warm	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 year	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 year	det
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 round	obl:unmarked
28	round	round	ADV	_	24 safe	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	brick				winter	warm property	tree rules
2	be		brick not said here					round property	tree rules

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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