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title: Her mother often scolded her for her selfishness, and told her that… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mother often scolded her for her selfishness, and told her that some day she would suffer for being so greedy and grabbing. Who acts: mother, Whitey. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 11

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Her mother often scolded her for her selfishness, and told her that some day she would suffer for being so greedy and grabbing.

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**Who acts:** mother, Whitey · **What happens:** scold, tell, suffer, be, grab · **To what, where:** Whitey · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Whitey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:13:11
# text = Her mother often scolded her for her selfishness, and told her that some day she would suffer for being so greedy and grabbing.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	selfishness	selfishness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	grabbing	grab	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scold** | past | Whitey's mother | Whitey |  |  |  | for Whitey's selfishness; often *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for selfishness=Attribute |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Whitey's mother *not said here* |  | Whitey |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **suffer** *not said to happen* | would | Whitey |  |  |  | day |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | greedy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grab** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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