The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 53

And poor Whitey began to whine and to whimper, and to wish that she had not been such a greedy little pig, and had chosen a more solid material than cabbages for her house.

Who acts: poor Whitey, Whitey · What happens: begin, whine, wish, have, not be, choose · To what, where: greedy little pig, solid material · 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 (poor Whitey, Whitey), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Whitey	amod
3	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 whine	mark
6	whine	whine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 whimper	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	9 whimper	mark
9	whimper	whimper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whine	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wish	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wish	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wish	mark
13	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wish	ccomp
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 pig	advmod
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 pig	cop
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 pig	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pig	det
21	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pig	amod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pig	amod
23	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 chosen	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 chosen	cc
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 chosen	aux
27	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 began	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 material	det
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 solid	advmod
30	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 material	amod
31	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chosen	obj
32	than	than	ADP	_	33 cabbages	case
33	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 material	nmod
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 house	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 house	nmod:poss
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cabbages	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	poor Whitey			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	whine	to-infinitive	poor Whitey not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wish	to-infinitive				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have	past	Whitey			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not is a	participle		such greedy little pig		tree rules
6	choose	past · perfect		a solid material	than cabbages for Whitey's house	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=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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