The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 69

Coiling himself round he lay quite snug in the bottom of the kettle, while with his fore-leg he managed to put the lid on, so that he was entirely hidden.

Who acts: thought · What happens: coil, lie, manage, put on, hide · To what, where: thought, lid

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	Coiling	coil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Coiling	obj
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 lay	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Coiling	advcl
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 snug	advmod
7	snug	snug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lay	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bottom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bottom	det
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snug	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 kettle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kettle	det
13	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bottom	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 managed	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 managed	mark
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 leg	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 leg	nmod:poss
18	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leg	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 fore	punct
20	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 managed	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 managed	nsubj
22	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 put	mark
24	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 managed	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lid	det
26	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	24 put	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hidden	punct
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 hidden	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hidden	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 hidden	aux:pass
33	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	34 hidden	advmod
34	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 put	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Coiling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	coil	gerund		thought		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent himself=Material
2	lie	past	thought		snug property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	manage	past	thought		with thought's fore leg	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	put on	to-infinitive	thought not said here	the lid		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lid=Goal
5	hide	past · passive		thought	entirely property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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