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title: ‘And you, Whitey?’ said the mother pig in rather a sad voice, for sh… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And you, Whitey?’ said the mother pig in rather a sad voice, for she was disappointed that Browny had made so foolish a choice. Who acts: pig, Browny. 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 21

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‘And you, Whitey?’ said the mother pig in rather a sad voice, for she was disappointed that Browny had made so foolish a choice.

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**Who acts:** pig, Browny · **What happens:** say, be, make · **To what, where:** mother pig, sad voice · **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 (pig, Browny), 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:pg7277:13:21
# text = ‘And you, Whitey?’ said the mother pig in rather a sad voice, for she was disappointed that Browny had made so foolish a choice.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	Browny	Browny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the mother pig |  | a sad voice |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent pig=Theme in voice=Manner |
| 2 | **is** | past | pig |  |  |  |  | disappointed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect | Browny |  |  |  |  | foolish *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «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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