The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 7
But no words of advice or warning could cure Browny of his bad habits.
Who acts: words · What happens: cure, word · To what, where: Browny, advice
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 (words), 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 | _ | 9 cure | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cure | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 advice | case |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 words | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 warning | cc |
| 7 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 advice | conj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cure | aux |
| 9 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | Browny | Browny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cure | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 habits | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 habits | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 habits | amod |
| 14 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Browny | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | could | no words of advice or warning | Browny of mud's bad habits | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer browny=Source | ||||
| 2 | word | advice or warning | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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