English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 57
So he got into the churn to hide, and by so doing turned it round, and it rolled down the hill with the pig in it, which frightened the wolf so much, that he ran home without going to the fair.
Who acts: wolf, churn · What happens: get, hide, do, turn, roll down, frighten · To what, where: churn, hill, wolf, fair
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 (wolf, churn), 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 | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 churn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 churn | det |
| 6 | churn | churn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hide | mark |
| 8 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 doing | mark |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 doing | advmod |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 turned | advcl |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | obj |
| 16 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 turned | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rolled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rolled | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rolled | nsubj |
| 20 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 hill | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hill | det |
| 23 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rolled | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 pig | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pig | det |
| 26 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rolled | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rolled | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 frightened | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 frightened | nsubj |
| 31 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rolled | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 wolf | det |
| 33 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 frightened | obj |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 much | advmod |
| 35 | much | much | ADV | _ | 31 frightened | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ran | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 ran | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ran | nsubj |
| 39 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 frightened | conj |
| 40 | home | home | ADV | _ | 39 ran | advmod |
| 41 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 42 going | mark |
| 42 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 ran | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 fair | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 fair | det |
| 45 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 going | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | wolf | the churn | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into churn=Destination | ||||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | wolf not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | gerund | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | turn | past | wolf not said here | churn | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | roll down | past | churn | the hill | hill | with the pig | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hill=Theme in it=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | frighten | past | the wolf | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wolf=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | run | past | wolf | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | go | gerund | wolf not said here | the fair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location |
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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