The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 31

He is very sly and will no doubt disguise himself, and pretend to be a friend, but you must promise me not to let him enter your houses on any pretext whatever.’

Who acts: fox, you · What happens: be, pretend, promise, not let, enter · To what, where: friend, me, fox, houses, pretext

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 (fox, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sly	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sly	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 sly	advmod
4	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 disguise	cc
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 disguise	aux
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 disguise	det
8	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disguise	compound
9	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sly	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	9 disguise	nmod:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pretend	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pretend	cc
13	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 sly	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	17 friend	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 friend	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 friend	det
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pretend	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 promise	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 promise	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 promise	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 promise	aux
22	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pretend	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 promise	iobj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 let	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 let	mark
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 promise	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 houses	nmod:poss
30	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 enter	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 pretext	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 pretext	det
33	pretext	pretext	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 enter	obl
34	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 pretext	appos
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sly	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 sly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	fox				sly property	tree rules
2	pretend	infinitive						tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive		a friend				tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	must	you		me			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not let not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	fox				tree rules
6	enter	infinitive	fox not said here	your houses		any pretext		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination

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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