The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 51

‘The cabbages are the walls of my house, and if you eat them you will make a hole, and the wind and rain will come in and give me a cold.

Who acts: cabbages, you, walls, wind · What happens: be, eat, make, come in, give · To what, where: walls, hole, cold, me

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 (cabbages, you, walls, wind), 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	_	6 walls	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cabbages	det
3	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walls	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 walls	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 walls	det
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 house	nmod:poss
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walls	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 make	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 eat	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 eat	nsubj
14	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 make	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	obj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 make	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hole	det
20	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wind	det
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rain	cc
26	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wind	conj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 make	parataxis
29	in	in	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 give	cc
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 come	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cold	det
34	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cabbages	the walls		of my house	tree rules
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	present	you	walls = wall			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	make	future	the walls	a hole			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
4	come in	future	the wind and rain				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	infinitive	the wind and rain not said here	a cold	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient cold=Theme

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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