The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 34
Browny was quite delighted with his soft mud walls and with the clay floor, which soon looked like nothing but a big mud pie.
Who acts: Browny, soft mud walls · What happens: be, look
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 (Browny, soft mud walls), 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 | Browny | Browny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 delighted | advmod |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 walls | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 walls | nmod:poss |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 walls | amod |
| 8 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walls | compound |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 delighted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 floor | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 13 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 floor | compound |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walls | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 looked | advmod |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 walls | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 nothing | case |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 looked | obl |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 pie | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pie | det |
| 23 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pie | amod |
| 24 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pie | compound |
| 25 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nothing | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Browny | with fox's soft mud walls and the clay floor; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | fox's soft mud walls and the clay floor | like nothing; soon property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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