English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 50

And he threw it so far, that, while the wolf was gone to pick it up, the little pig jumped down and ran home.

Who acts: garden, wolf, little pig · What happens: throw, be, pick up, jump down, run · To what, where: tree

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 (garden, wolf, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 threw	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 threw	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 far	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 threw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 gone	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	cop
14	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 threw	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pick	mark
16	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 gone	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pick	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 pick	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 jumped	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pig	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pig	amod
22	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 jumped	nsubj
23	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 jumped	compound:prt
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ran	cc
26	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 jumped	conj
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 ran	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past	garden	tree	far property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination that=Theme
2	is	past	the wolf		gone property	tree rules
3	pick up	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here	tree		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	jump down	past	the little pig			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	past	the little pig not said here		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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