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title: So she said to the dog: “Dog! bite pig; piggy won't go over the stil… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she said to the dog: “Dog! bite pig; piggy won't go over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.” Who acts: piggy. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Old Woman and Her Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 6

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So she said to the dog: “Dog! bite pig; piggy won't go over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.”

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**Who acts:** piggy · **What happens:** say, not go, not get · **To what, where:** dog, Dog bite pig, stile · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Old Woman and Her Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piggy), 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:pg7439:9:6
# text = So she said to the dog: “Dog! bite pig; piggy won't go over the stile; and I shan't get home to-night.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	piggy	piggy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stile	stile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	sha	sha	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
27	home	home	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | piggy |  | the dog |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | future | piggy | Dog bite pig *not said here* |  | the stile |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pig=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **get** *in a quote* |  | piggy |  |  |  | night | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:** «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.

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