--- title: The Old Woman and Her Pig — English Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: The Old Woman and Her Pig, «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: An old woman was sweeping her house, and she found a little crooked sixpence. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / The Old Woman and Her Pig # The Old Woman and Her Pig The Old Woman and Her Pig of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 36 sentences and 761 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/1/) — An old woman was sweeping her house, and she found a little crooked sixpence. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/2/) — “What,” said she, “shall I do with this little sixpence? - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/3/) — I will go to market, and buy a little pig.” - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/4/) — As she was coming home, she came to a stile: but the piggy wouldn't go over the stile. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/5/) — She went a little further, and she met a dog. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/6/) — So she said to the dog: “Dog! bite pig; piggy won't go over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/7/) — But the dog wouldn't. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/8/) — She went a little further, and she met a stick. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/9/) — So she said: “Stick! stick! beat dog! dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/10/) — But the stick wouldn't. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/11/) — She went a little further, and she met a fire. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/12/) — So she said: “Fire! fire! burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/13/) — But the fire wouldn't. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/14/) — She went a little further, and she met some water. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/15/) — So she said: “Water, water! quench fire; fire won't burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/16/) — But the water wouldn't. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/17/) — She went a little further, and she met an ox. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/18/) — So she said: “Ox! ox! drink water; water won't quench fire; fire won't burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/19/) — But the ox wouldn't. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/20/) — She went a little further, and she met a butcher. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/21/) — So she said: “Butcher! butcher! kill ox; ox won't drink water; water won't quench fire; fire won't burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/22/) — But the butcher wouldn't. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/23/) — She went a little further, and she met a rope. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/24/) — So she said: “Rope! rope! hang butcher; butcher won't kill ox; ox won't drink water; water won't quench fire; fire won't burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/25/) — But the rope wouldn't. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/26/) — She went a little further, and she met a rat. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/27/) — So she said: “Rat! rat! gnaw rope; rope won't hang butcher; butcher won't kill ox; ox won't drink water; water won't quench fire; fire won't burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/28/) — But the rat wouldn't. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/29/) — She went a little further, and she met a cat. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/30/) — So she said: “Cat! cat! kill rat; rat won't gnaw rope; rope won't hang butcher; butcher won't kill ox; ox won't drink water; water won't quench fire; fire won't burn stick; stick won't beat dog; dog won't bite pig; piggy won't get over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/31/) — But the cat said to her, “If you will go to yonder cow, and fetch me a saucer of milk, I will kill the rat.” - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/32/) — So away went the old woman to the cow. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/33/) — But the cow said to her: “If you will go to yonder hay-stack, and fetch me a handful of hay, I'll give you the milk.” - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/34/) — So away went the old woman to the haystack and she brought the hay to the cow. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/35/) — As soon as the cow had eaten the hay, she gave the old woman the milk; and away she went with it in a saucer to the cat. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/9/36/) — As soon as the cat had lapped up the milk, the cat began to kill the rat; the rat began to gnaw the rope; the rope began to hang the butcher; the butcher began to kill the ox; the ox began to drink the water; the water began to quench the fire; the fire began to burn the stick; the stick began to beat the dog; the dog began to bite the pig; the little pig in a fright jumped over the stile, and so the old woman got home that night. - ← previous: [The Rose-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/8/) - next →: [How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/10/) - ↑ back to [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/)