English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 28

Well, he huffed, and he puffed, and he huffed and he puffed, and he puffed and huffed; but he could _not_ get the house down.

Who acts: first · What happens: huff, puff, _, not get down · 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 (first), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 huffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 huffed	nsubj
4	huffed	huff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 puffed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 puffed	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 puffed	nsubj
8	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 huffed	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 huffed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 huffed	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 huffed	nsubj
12	huffed	huff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 puffed	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 puffed	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 puffed	nsubj
15	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 huffed	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 puffed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 puffed	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 puffed	nsubj
19	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 huffed	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 huffed	cc
21	huffed	huff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 puffed	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 _	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 _	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 _	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 _	aux
26	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 huffed	conj
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 get	advmod
28	_	_	PART	_	29 get	mark
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 _	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obj
32	down	down	ADP	_	29 get	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 huffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	huff	past	first		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	puff	past	first		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	huff	past	first		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	puff	past	first		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	puff	past	first		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
6	huff	participle	first not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	_	could	first		tree rules
8	not get down	infinitive	first not said here	the house	tree rules

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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