--- title: So he got into the churn to hide, and by so doing turned it round, a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So he got into the churn to hide, and by so doing turned it round, and it rolled down the hill with the pig in it, which frightened the wolf so much, that he ran home without going to the fair. Who acts: wolf, churn. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of the Three Little --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/17/57/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The Story of the Three Little Pigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/17/) / 57 # English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, sentence 57 So he got into the churn to hide, and by so doing turned it round, and it rolled down the hill with the pig in it, which frightened the wolf so much, that he ran home without going to the fair. **Who acts:** wolf, churn · **What happens:** get, hide, do, turn, roll down, frighten · **To what, where:** churn, hill, wolf, fair This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of 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 (wolf, churn), 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:pg7439:17:57 # text = So he got into the churn to hide, and by so doing turned it round, and it rolled down the hill with the pig in it, which frightened the wolf so much, that he ran home without going to the fair. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 churn churn NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 by by SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 14 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 round round ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 down down ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 frightened frighten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 40 home home ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 without without SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 42 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 fair fair NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | wolf | | | the churn | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into churn=Destination | | 2 | **hide** | to-infinitive | wolf *not said here* | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** | gerund | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **turn** | past | wolf *not said here* | churn | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **roll down** | past | churn | the hill | | hill | | with the pig | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hill=Theme in it=Trajectory | | 6 | **frighten** | past | | the wolf | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wolf=Experiencer | | 7 | **run** | past | wolf | | | | | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **go** | gerund | wolf *not said here* | | | the fair | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial\_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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/17/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/17/58/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Three Little Pigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/17/)