English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 49

“I will throw you down one.”

Who acts: little pig · What happens: throw down · To what, where: one, you

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 (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	_	4 throw	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 throw	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	aux
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 throw	compound:prt
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 throw	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw down in a quote	future	the little pig = pig	one	you				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination one=Theme

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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