The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 76
But Blacky very wisely had not put the lid on the kettle, and, with a yelp of pain, the fox fell into the boiling water, and before he could escape, Blacky had popped the lid on, and the fox was scalded to death.
Who acts: Blacky, yelp, pain · What happens: not put, fall, boil, escape, pop on, scald · To what, where: lid, kettle, boiling water, fox
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, yelp, pain), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 2 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 put | nsubj |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 wisely | advmod |
| 4 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 put | advmod |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lid | det |
| 9 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 kettle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kettle | det |
| 12 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fell | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yelp | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 yelp | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 yelp | det |
| 18 | yelp | yelp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 pain | case |
| 20 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 yelp | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yelp | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fox | det |
| 23 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | advcl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 27 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 water | amod |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 escape | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 escape | cc |
| 31 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 34 escape | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 escape | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 escape | aux |
| 34 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fell | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 popped | punct |
| 36 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 popped | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 popped | aux |
| 38 | popped | pop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 escape | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 lid | det |
| 40 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 popped | obj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 popped | compound:prt |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 scalded | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 scalded | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 fox | det |
| 45 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 scalded | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 scalded | aux:pass |
| 47 | scalded | scald | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 popped | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 death | case |
| 49 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 scalded | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not put | past | Blacky | the lid | the kettle | wisely property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme on kettle=Destination | ||
| 2 | fall | past | a yelp of pain | into the boiling water result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | ||||
| 3 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | escape | could | Blacky | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pop on | past · perfect | Blacky | the lid | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient | ||||
| 6 | scald | past · passive | the fox | to death result | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to death=Result | ||||
| 7 | yelp | pain | nom yelp «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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