More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 81

All went well till one day, when she had put their food into the trough she thought they did not eat fast enough, and she pushed their heads into the trough to make them eat faster, and they were all choked.

Who acts: mother, pigs · What happens: go, put, think, not eat, push, make · To what, where: food, trough, heads, pigs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, pigs), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 went	advmod
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
4	till	till	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 put	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 put	aux
11	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 food	nmod:poss
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 trough	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trough	det
16	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 trough	acl:relcl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 eat	advmod
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thought	ccomp
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 eat	advmod
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 eat	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pushed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pushed	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pushed	nsubj
28	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 heads	nmod:poss
30	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pushed	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 trough	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trough	det
33	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pushed	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 pushed	advcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 make	obj
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 make	xcomp
38	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 eat	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 choked	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 choked	cc
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 choked	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 choked	aux:pass
43	all	all	ADV	_	44 choked	advmod
44	choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past				day	well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past · perfect	mother	pigs's food	the trough			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent food=Goal
3	think speech: other	past	mother	the trough not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent trough=Attribute clause=Theme
4	not eat	past · do-support	pigs = pig				enough, fast property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	push	past	mother	pigs's heads	the trough			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme into trough=Destination
6	make	to-infinitive	mother not said here	pigs = pig				tree rules
7	eat	infinitive	pigs = pig not said here				fast property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	choke	past · passive		pigs = pig			all property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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