English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 20

So he huffed, and he puffed, and he puffed, and he huffed, and at last he blew the house down, and he ate up the little pig.

Who acts: wolf · What happens: huff, puff, blow down, eat up · To what, where: house, last, 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 puffed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 puffed	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 puffed	nsubj
11	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huffed	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 huffed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 huffed	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 huffed	nsubj
15	huffed	huff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 puffed	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 blew	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blew	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 blew	nsubj
21	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huffed	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blew	obj
24	down	down	ADP	_	21 blew	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ate	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 ate	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ate	nsubj
28	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 huffed	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 ate	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pig	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pig	amod
32	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ate	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 huffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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	puff	past	wolf			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	huff	past	wolf			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	blow down	past	wolf	the house	last	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient
6	eat up	past	wolf	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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