The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 80

He quickly found a sharp stone and cut the cords by which they were tied to a stake in the ground, and then all three started off together for Blacky’s house, where they lived happily ever after; and Browny quite gave up rolling in the mud, and Whitey ceased to be greedy, for they never forgot how nearly these faults had brought them to an untimely end.

Who acts: Blacky, three, cords, Browny, Whitey · What happens: find, cut, tie, start off, live, give up · To what, where: sharp stone, cords, mud, faults

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, three, cords, Browny), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 found	advmod
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stone	amod
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cut	cc
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cords	det
10	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cut	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 tied	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tied	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tied	aux:pass
15	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cut	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 stake	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stake	det
18	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tied	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stake	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 started	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 started	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 started	advmod
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 three	det
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 started	nsubj
27	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 started	compound:prt
29	together	together	ADV	_	27 started	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 house	case
31	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 house	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Blacky	case
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 started	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lived	punct
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 lived	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 lived	nsubj
37	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 house	acl:relcl
38	happily	happily	ADV	_	37 lived	advmod
39	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 after	advmod
40	after	after	ADV	_	38 happily	conj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 gave	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 gave	cc
43	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 gave	nsubj
44	quite	quite	ADV	_	45 gave	advmod
45	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 gave	compound:prt
47	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 gave	advcl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 mud	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 mud	det
50	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 rolling	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 ceased	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 ceased	cc
53	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 ceased	nsubj
54	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
55	to	to	PART	_	57 greedy	mark
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 greedy	cop
57	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 ceased	xcomp
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 forgot	punct
59	for	for	SCONJ	_	62 forgot	mark
60	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 forgot	nsubj
61	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	62 forgot	advmod
62	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 brought	advcl
63	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	64 nearly	advmod
64	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	62 forgot	advmod
65	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	66 faults	det
66	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 brought	nsubj:pass
67	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 brought	aux
68	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 ceased	parataxis
69	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 brought	obj
70	to	to	ADP	_	73 end	case
71	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	73 end	det
72	untimely	untimely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 end	amod
73	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 brought	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Blacky	a sharp stone			quickly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
2	cut	infinitive	Blacky not said here	the cords				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cord=Product
3	tie	past · passive		cords = cord			to a stake in the ground	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to stake=Co-Patient
4	start off	past	all three			then	for Blacky's house; together property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	live	past	cords = cord				happily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give up	past	Browny					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	roll	gerund	Browny not said here		the mud			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory
8	cease	past	Whitey					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	is	to-infinitive	Whitey not said here				greedy property	tree rules
10	not forget	past	Browny				nearly property	tree rules
11	bring	past · perfect · passive		this faults		to a untimely end		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination they=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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