The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 48

He began speaking to her in the same feigned gentle voice in which he had spoken to Browny; but it frightened her very much when he said:

Who acts: fox, same, den · What happens: begin, speak, feign, frighten, say · To what, where: Whitey, gentle voice, Browny · Speech: someone speaks here

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, same, den), 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	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 began	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 speaking	obl
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 feigned	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feigned	nsubj
9	feigned	feign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 speaking	advcl
10	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 voice	amod
11	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feigned	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 spoken	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spoken	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spoken	aux
16	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 voice	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Browny	case
18	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 spoken	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 frightened	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 frightened	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 frightened	nsubj
22	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 frightened	obj
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	22 frightened	advmod
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 said	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 frightened	advcl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	fox				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	gerund	fox not said here		Whitey		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
3	feign	past	the same	gentle voice			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
4	speak speech: other	past · perfect	fox		Browny	gentle voice	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to browny=Co-Agent
5	frighten	past	den	Whitey			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert	past	fox				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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