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title: As soon as the food was poured into the trough she jostled Blacky an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the food was poured into the trough she jostled Blacky and Browny out of the way in her eagerness to get the best and biggest bits for herself. Who acts: Whitey. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 10

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As soon as the food was poured into the trough she jostled Blacky and Browny out of the way in her eagerness to get the best and biggest bits for herself.

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**Who acts:** Whitey · **What happens:** pour, jostle, get · **To what, where:** food, trough, Blacky, way, best biggest bits

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (Whitey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7277:13:10
# text = As soon as the food was poured into the trough she jostled Blacky and Browny out of the way in her eagerness to get the best and biggest bits for herself.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	jostled	jostle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Browny	Browny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | past · passive |  | the food |  | the trough |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into trough=Destination |
| 2 | **jostle** | past | Whitey | Blacky and Browny |  | the way |  | in Whitey's eagerness; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | Whitey *not said here* | the best biggest bits |  |  |  | for Whitey | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Theme for herself=Source |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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