English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 61

I had been to the fair and bought a butter-churn, and when I saw you, I got into it, and rolled down the hill.”

Who acts: I · What happens: be, buy, see, get, roll down · To what, where: butter churn, you, churn, hill

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fair	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 fair	cop
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 fair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fair	det
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bought	cc
8	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 churn	det
10	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 churn	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 butter	punct
12	churn	churn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 got	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 saw	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 got	advcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 saw	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 got	nsubj
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	advcl
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 got	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rolled	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rolled	cc
26	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fair	parataxis
27	down	down	ADP	_	29 hill	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hill	det
29	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rolled	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fair	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 fair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	I			fair property	tree rules
2	buy	past	I not said here	a butter churn			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent churn=Theme
3	see	past	I	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	get	past	I		churn		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination
5	roll down	participle		the hill			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Agent

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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