English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 62

Then the wolf was very angry indeed, and declared he _would_ eat up the little pig, and that he would get down the chimney after him.

Who acts: wolf · What happens: be, declare, eat up, get down · To what, where: little pig, chimney · 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 declared	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 declared	cc
10	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eat	nsubj
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 he	punct
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 eat	aux
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 declared	ccomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 eat	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pig	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pig	amod
19	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eat	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 get	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 get	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 get	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 get	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 get	aux
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 eat	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 get	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 chimney	det
28	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 get	obj
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 get	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wolf		then	angry, indeed property	tree rules
2	declare speech: other	past	the wolf not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	eat up	would	wolf	the little pig			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient
4	get down	would	wolf	the chimney	after Hah		tree rules

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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