The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 74
In the meantime Blacky had filled the kettle with water, and having put it on the fire, sat down quietly waiting for it to boil.
Who acts: Blacky · What happens: fill, have, put, sit down, wait, boil · To what, where: kettle, meantime, fire
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obl |
| 4 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 filled | aux |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kettle | det |
| 8 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 put | reparandum |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 filled | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 fire | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fire | det |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 sat | compound:prt |
| 22 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 20 sat | advmod |
| 23 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 sat | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 waiting | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 boil | mark |
| 27 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 waiting | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · perfect | Blacky | the kettle | the meantime | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient with water=Instrument | ||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | put | past | kettle | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wait | gerund | for kettle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | boil | to-infinitive | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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