The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 35
But that was what Browny enjoyed, and he was as happy as possible, rolling about all day and making himself in such a mess.
Who acts: that, Browny · What happens: be, enjoy, roll, make · To what, where: fox, mess
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 (that, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 what | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | Browny | Browny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 6 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 happy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happy | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 happy | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happy | cop |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 happy | advmod |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 possible | mark |
| 14 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 happy | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rolling | punct |
| 16 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 happy | advcl |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rolling | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 making | cc |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 rolling | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 making | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mess | case |
| 24 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 mess | det:predet |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 mess | det |
| 26 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enjoy | past | Browny | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | roll | gerund | day | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | fox | such mess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
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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