--- title: She was always thinking of her food, and looking forward to her dinn… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She was always thinking of her food, and looking forward to her dinner; and when the farm girl was seen carrying the pails across the yard, she would rise up on her hind legs and dance and caper with excitement. Who acts: Whitey, farm girl. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/13/9/) [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/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Three Little Pigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/13/) / 9 # The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 9 She was always thinking of her food, and looking forward to her dinner; and when the farm girl was seen carrying the pails across the yard, she would rise up on her hind legs and dance and caper with excitement. **Who acts:** Whitey, farm girl · **What happens:** think, look, see, carry, rise up · **To what, where:** farm girl, pails, hind legs 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, farm girl), 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:pg7277:13:9 # text = She was always thinking of her food, and looking forward to her dinner; and when the farm girl was seen carrying the pails across the yard, she would rise up on her hind legs and dance and caper with excitement. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 11 forward forward ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 when when SCONJ WRB _ 22 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 ccomp _ _ 23 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pails pail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 across across ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 hind hind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 caper caper NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 excitement excitement NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Whitey | | | | | of Whitey's food; always *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | Whitey *not said here* | | | | | to Whitey's dinner; forward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to dinner=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past · passive | | the farm girl | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | gerund | the farm girl *not said here* | the pails | | | | across the yard | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Theme | | 5 | **rise up** | would | Whitey | | | Whitey's hind legs and dance and caper with excitement | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/13/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/13/10/) - ↑ back to [The Three Little Pigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/13/)