The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 75

Just as the kettle was beginning to sing, and steam to come out of the spout, he heard a sound like a soft, muffled step, patter, patter, patter overhead, and the next moment the fox’s head and fore-paws were seen coming down the chimney.

Who acts: kettle, Blacky, next moment · What happens: begin, sing, come out, hear, patter, see · To what, where: spout, sound, next moment, chimney

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 (kettle, Blacky, next moment), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 beginning	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 beginning	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kettle	det
4	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beginning	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beginning	aux
6	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 heard	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sing	mark
8	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 beginning	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 steam	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 steam	cc
11	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beginning	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 steam	acl
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 spout	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 spout	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spout	det
17	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beginning	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sound	det
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obj
23	like	like	ADP	_	28 step	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 step	det
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 step	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 soft	punct
27	muffled	muffled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 step	amod
28	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sound	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 patter	punct
30	patter	patter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 heard	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 patter	punct
32	patter	patter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 patter	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 patter	punct
34	patter	patter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 patter	conj
35	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	34 patter	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 seen	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 seen	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 moment	det
39	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 moment	amod
40	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 seen	nsubj:pass
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fox	det
42	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 head	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 fox	case
44	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 moment	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 paws	cc
46	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 paws	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 fore	punct
48	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 head	conj
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 seen	aux:pass
50	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 heard	conj
51	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 seen	xcomp
52	down	down	ADP	_	54 chimney	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 chimney	det
54	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 coming	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past · progressive	the kettle			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	the kettle not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come out	to-infinitive	the kettle not said here	the spout		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient spout=Result
4	hear	past	Blacky	a sound	like a soft muffled step	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
5	patter	infinitive	Blacky not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	patter	infinitive	Blacky not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	patter	infinitive	Blacky not said here		overhead property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	past · passive		the next moment the fox's head and fore paws		tree rules
9	come down	gerund	the next moment the fox's head and fore paws not said here	the chimney		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chimney=Theme

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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