English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 19
“Then I'll puff, and I'll huff, and I'll blow your house in.”
Who acts: second little pig · What happens: puff, huff, blow in · To what, where: house
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 (second little pig), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 puff | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 puff | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 puff | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 puff | aux |
| 5 | puff | puff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 huff | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 huff | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 huff | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 huff | aux |
| 10 | huff | huff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 puff | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blow | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 blow | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 blow | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 blow | aux |
| 15 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 puff | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blow | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 blow | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 puff | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 puff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff in a quote | future | the second little pig = pig | then | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | huff in a quote | future | the second little pig = pig | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | blow in in a quote | future | the second little pig = pig | your house | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=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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