English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 12

So he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew his house in, and ate up the little pig.

Who acts: wolf · What happens: huff, puff, blow in, eat up · To what, where: house, little pig

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of 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 (wolf), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 huffed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 huffed	nsubj
3	huffed	huff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 puffed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 puffed	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 puffed	nsubj
7	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huffed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blew	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blew	nsubj
11	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huffed	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 house	nmod:poss
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blew	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	11 blew	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huffed	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 ate	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pig	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pig	amod
21	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ate	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 huffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	huff	past	wolf		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	puff	past	wolf		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	blow in	past	wolf	wolf's house	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient
4	eat up	past	wolf not said here	the little pig	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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