The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 46

A moment later he had jumped through it, and catching Browny by the neck, flung him on his shoulders and trotted off with him to his den.

Who acts: way, moment · What happens: have, jump, catch, fling, trot off · To what, where: moment, hole, Browny, way, shoulders, den

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 (way, moment), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jumped	nsubj
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 moment	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moment	acl:relcl
6	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 jumped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 catching	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 catching	cc
11	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 jumped	advcl
12	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 catching	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 neck	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 neck	det
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 catching	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flung	punct
17	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 jumped	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flung	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 shoulders	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shoulders	nmod:poss
21	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flung	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 trotted	cc
23	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 flung	conj
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 trotted	compound:prt
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 trotted	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 den	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 den	nmod:poss
29	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trotted	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	way	a moment not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Patient
2	jump	past	a moment		hole		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory
3	catch	gerund	a moment not said here	Browny		by the neck	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent browny=Theme
4	fling	past		way	way's shoulders		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on shoulder=Destination
5	trot off	past			way's den	with way	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to den=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: «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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