--- title: If a hog, go join your fellow-swine in the sty; if a lion, a wolf, a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: If a hog, go join your fellow-swine in the sty; if a lion, a wolf, a tiger, go howl with the wild beasts on the lawn; if a fox, go exercise your craft in stealing poultry. Who acts: you, lion, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lion, your), 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:pg976:18:59 # text = If a hog, go join your fellow-swine in the sty; if a lion, a wolf, a tiger, go howl with the wild beasts on the lawn; if a fox, go exercise your craft in stealing poultry. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hog hog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 swine swine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sty sty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 25 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 26 howl howl NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 lawn lawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 39 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 40 exercise exercise NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 craft craft NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 in in SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 44 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 45 poultry poultry NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **join** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your fellow swine | | the sty | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swine=Patient | | 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | a lion and a wolf and a tiger | howl | | | | with the wild beasts on the lawn | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location howl=Theme | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | you *not said here* | exercise | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **steal** | gerund | you *not said here* | poultry | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location poultry=Theme | | 6 | **craft** | | your | | | | | | nom craft «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/60/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/)