The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 6

His mother often found fault with him for this, and would shake her head sadly and say: ‘Ah, Browny! some day you will be sorry that you did not obey your old mother.’

Who acts: mother, Browny, you · What happens: find, shake, say, be, not obey · To what, where: fault, head, old mother · 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 (mother, Browny, you), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fault	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 found	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shake	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shake	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 shake	aux
13	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 found	parataxis
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shake	obj
16	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	13 shake	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 shake	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 sorry	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 sorry	punct
21	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	23 Browny	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Browny	punct
23	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 sorry	nsubj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 Browny	punct
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Browny	appos
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 sorry	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sorry	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 sorry	cop
30	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 obey	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 obey	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 obey	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 obey	advmod
35	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sorry	ccomp
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mother	nmod:poss
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 mother	amod
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 obey	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 sorry	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	mud's mother	fault	with mud; for this; often property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fault=Theme for this=Beneficiary
2	shake	would		mother's head	sadly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	say speech: assert	infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	future	Browny		sorry property	tree rules
5	not obey	past · do-support	you	your old mother		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=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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