English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 29

When he found that he could not, with all his huffing and puffing, blow the house down, he said:

Who acts: first · What happens: find, blow down, say, huff · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 found	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 could	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 could	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 found	ccomp
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 could	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 huffing	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 huffing	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 huffing	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 huffing	nmod:poss
12	huffing	huffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 puffing	cc
14	puffing	puffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 huffing	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 blow	punct
16	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blow	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	16 blow	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	first		with first's huffing and puffing	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	blow down	infinitive		the house		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	first			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	huff		first			nom huffing «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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