---
title: In Steel and Temple's “Lambikin” (_Wide-awake Stories_, p. 71), the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In Steel and Temple's “Lambikin” (_Wide-awake Stories_, p. 71), the Lambikin gets inside a Drumikin, and so nearly escapes the jackal. Who acts: Lambikin. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Three Little Pigs., 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/pg7439/64/7/)

<!-- 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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [XIV. Three Little Pigs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/64/) / 7

# English Fairy Tales, XIV. Three Little Pigs., sentence 7

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In Steel and Temple's “Lambikin” (\_Wide-awake Stories\_, p. 71), the Lambikin gets inside a Drumikin, and so nearly escapes the jackal.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Lambikin · **What happens:** get, escape · **To what, where:** Drumikin, jackal

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. 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 (Lambikin), 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:pg7439:64:7
# text = In Steel and Temple's “Lambikin” (_Wide-awake Stories_, p. 71), the Lambikin gets inside a Drumikin, and so nearly escapes the jackal.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Steel	Steel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Temple	Temple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
18	71	71	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Drumikin	Drumikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	escapes	escape	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the Lambikin |  |  | a Drumikin |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **escape** | present | the Lambikin *not said here* | the jackal |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jackal=Initial\_Location |

<!-- .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:** «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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/64/6/)
- next →: [XV. Master and Pupil, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/1/)
- ↑ back to [XIV. Three Little Pigs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/64/)