--- title: All went well till one day, when she had put their food into the tro… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: All went well till one day, when she had put their food into the trough she thought they did not eat fast enough, and she pushed their heads into the trough to make them eat faster, and they were all choked. Who acts: mother, pigs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, pigs), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:15:81 # text = All went well till one day, when she had put their food into the trough she thought they did not eat fast enough, and she pushed their heads into the trough to make them eat faster, and they were all choked. 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 advmod _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 4 till till ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 trough trough NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 23 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 24 enough enough ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 trough trough NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 43 all all ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 choked choke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | | | | | day | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **put** | past · perfect | mother | pigs's food | | the trough | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent food=Goal | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | mother | the trough *not said here* | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent trough=Attribute clause=Theme | | 4 | **not** **eat** | past · do-support | pigs *= pig* | | | | | enough, fast *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **push** | past | mother | pigs's heads | | the trough | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme into trough=Destination | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | pigs *= pig* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **eat** | infinitive | pigs *= pig* *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **choke** | past · passive | | pigs *= pig* | | | | all *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/15/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/15/82/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/15/)