---
title: When they reached the gate the leading pig stuck fast in the gateway… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached the gate the leading pig stuck fast in the gateway, and wouldn't budge an inch. Who acts: pair. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/92/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/) / 92

# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3, sentence 92

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
When they reached the gate the leading pig stuck fast in the gateway, and wouldn't budge an inch.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** pair · **What happens:** reach, lead, stick, not budge · **To what, where:** gate, leading pig, gateway, inch

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg29672:27:92
# text = When they reached the gate the leading pig stuck fast in the gateway, and wouldn't budge an inch.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gateway	gateway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	budge	budge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | pair | the gate |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary pig=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **stick** | participle |  | the leading pig *not said here* |  | the gateway |  | fast *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in gateway=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **budge** | would | pair *not said here* | a inch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/91/)
- next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/93/)
- ↑ back to [The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/27/)