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title: His mother often found fault with him for this, and would shake her… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs, with its dependency tree 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 6

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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.’

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**Who acts:** mother, Browny, you · **What happens:** find, shake, say, be, not obey · **To what, where:** fault, head, old mother · **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, Browny, you), 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:pg7277:13:6
# text = 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.’
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|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	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	shake	shake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Browny	Browny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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