English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 55

So the little pig went off before the time as usual, and got to the fair, and bought a butter-churn, which he was going home with, when he saw the wolf coming.

Who acts: little pig, butter churn, wolf · What happens: go off, get, buy, go, see, come · To what, where: butter churn, wolf

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, butter churn, 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	_	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pig	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pig	amod
4	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 usual	case
11	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 got	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 fair	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fair	det
17	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bought	cc
20	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 churn	det
22	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 churn	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 butter	punct
24	churn	churn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bought	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 going	nsubj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 going	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 churn	acl
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 going	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	29 going	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 saw	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 saw	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 saw	nsubj
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bought	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wolf	det
37	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 saw	obj
38	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 saw	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	the little pig		time	as usual	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	the little pig not said here			to the fair result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fair=Result
3	buy	past		a butter churn			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent churn=Theme
4	go	past · progressive	a butter churn			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	past	wolf	the wolf			tree rules
6	come	gerund	the wolf not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «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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