The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 77

As soon as he was sure that their wicked enemy was really dead, and could do them no further harm, Blacky started off to rescue Browny and Whitey.

Who acts: Blacky, wicked enemy · What happens: be, do, know, start off, rescue · To what, where: enemy, further harm, Browny

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, wicked enemy), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 sure	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 sure	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sure	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sure	cop
6	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 dead	mark
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 enemy	nmod:poss
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 enemy	amod
10	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dead	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dead	cop
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 dead	advmod
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sure	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 do	cc
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
17	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 sure	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	obj
19	no	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 do	conj
20	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 harm	amod
21	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 no	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 started	punct
23	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 started	nsubj
24	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 do	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 started	compound:prt
26	to	to	PART	_	27 rescue	mark
27	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 started	advcl
28	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 rescue	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Whitey	cc
30	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Browny	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Blacky		soon, sure property	tree rules
2	is	past	steps's wicked enemy		dead property	tree rules
3	do	could		enemy		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
4	know	infinitive		further harm		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus
5	start off	past	Blacky			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	rescue	to-infinitive	Blacky not said here	Browny and Whitey		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent browny=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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