The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 68
In a moment he had snatched the lid off the kettle and had jumped in himself.
Who acts: thought · What happens: snatch, have, jump · To what, where: lid, kettle
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (thought), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jumped | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 snatched | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 snatched | aux |
| 6 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 moment | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lid | det |
| 8 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snatched | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 kettle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kettle | det |
| 11 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snatched | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 snatched | conj |
| 14 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 jumped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch | past · perfect | thought | the lid | the kettle | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lid=Theme off kettle=Source | |||
| 2 | have | past | thought not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | jump | past | moment | in thought | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in himself=Trajectory |
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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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