The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 71
Very much disappointed, he was just going to turn away, when he saw the kettle stop close to the little brick house, and in a moment later Blacky jumped out of it and escaped with the kettle into the house, when he barred and bolted the door, and put the shutter up over the window.
Who acts: thought, Blacky · What happens: go, turn away, see, stop, jump out, escape · To what, where: kettle, house, door, shutter, window
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, Blacky), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 disappointed | advmod |
| 3 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stop | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 disappointed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 turn | mark |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 going | xcomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 turn | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stop | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kettle | det |
| 17 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 stop | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 house | amod |
| 23 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 house | compound |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 close | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 put | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 put | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 moment | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 moment | det |
| 29 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 put | obl |
| 30 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 jumped | advmod |
| 31 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 jumped | nsubj |
| 32 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 put | advcl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 jumped | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 escaped | cc |
| 37 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 jumped | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 kettle | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 kettle | det |
| 40 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 escaped | obl |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 house | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 house | det |
| 43 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 escaped | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 barred | punct |
| 45 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 barred | advmod |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 barred | nsubj |
| 47 | barred | bar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 jumped | parataxis |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 bolted | cc |
| 49 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 barred | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 door | det |
| 51 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 bolted | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 put | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 put | cc |
| 54 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 stop | conj |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 shutter | det |
| 56 | shutter | shutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 put | obj |
| 57 | up | up | ADP | _ | 54 put | compound:prt |
| 58 | over | over | ADP | _ | 60 window | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 window | det |
| 60 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 put | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | thought | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | turn away | to-infinitive | thought not said here | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | thought | the kettle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kettle=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stop | present | close property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | jump out | past | Blacky | kettle | late property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | escape | past | Blacky not said here | the house | with the kettle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | bar | past | thought | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 8 | bolt | past | thought not said here | the door | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 9 | put up | infinitive | the shutter | the window | moment | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shutter=Theme over window=Destination |
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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