--- title: But when it sniffed the milk, it turned aside to the trough and swal… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But when it sniffed the milk, it turned aside to the trough and swallowed all the milk up, and then slowly turned round and crossed the river Wear, and coiled its bulk three times round the Worm Hill for the night. Who acts: Worm, it. 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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 (Worm, it), 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:pg14241:32:116 # text = But when it sniffed the milk, it turned aside to the trough and swallowed all the milk up, and then slowly turned round and crossed the river Wear, and coiled its bulk three times round the Worm Hill for the night. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sniffed sniff VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 aside aside ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 trough trough NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 18 det:predet _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 23 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 25 round round ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Wear Wear PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 coiled coil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 bulk bulk NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 round round ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Worm Worm PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Hill Hill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sniff** | past | Worm | the milk | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | | 2 | **turn** | past | it | | | the trough | | aside *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to trough=Trajectory | | 3 | **swallow up** | past | | all milk | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | | 4 | **turn round** | past | | | | | then | round, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cross** | past | | the river Wear | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wear=Patient | | 6 | **coil** | past | | Worm's bulk | | | night; time | round the Worm Hill | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bulk=Theme round hill=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 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/117/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/)