English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 58

He went to the little pig's house, and told him how frightened he had been by a great round thing which came down the hill past him.

Who acts: wolf, great round thing · What happens: go, tell, frighten, be, come down · To what, where: house, wolf, hill · 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 (wolf, great round thing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pig	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pig	amod
6	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 pig	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 frightened	advmod
14	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	ccomp
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thing	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thing	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 thing	cop
18	by	by	ADP	_	22 thing	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thing	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
21	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 frightened	parataxis
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thing	acl:relcl
25	down	down	ADP	_	27 hill	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hill	det
27	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
28	past	past	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	wolf			the little pig's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	wolf not said here		wolf			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	frighten	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past · perfect	wolf				by a great round thing	tree rules
5	come down	past	a great round thing	the hill			past wolf	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hill=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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