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title: With a little kick from the inside he started the kettle off, and do… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With a little kick from the inside he started the kettle off, and down the hill it rolled full tilt; and when the fox came up, all that he saw was a large black kettle spinning over the ground at a great pace. Who acts: thought, kettle, fox, large black kettle. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» b
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 70

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With a little kick from the inside he started the kettle off, and down the hill it rolled full tilt; and when the fox came up, all that he saw was a large black kettle spinning over the ground at a great pace.

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**Who acts:** thought, kettle, fox, large black kettle · **What happens:** start off, roll, come up, see, be, spin · **To what, where:** kettle, full tilt, large black kettle, ground

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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 (thought, kettle, fox, large black kettle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:13:70
# text = With a little kick from the inside he started the kettle off, and down the hill it rolled full tilt; and when the fox came up, all that he saw was a large black kettle spinning over the ground at a great pace.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	kick	kick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tilt	tilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
39	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	over	over	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | thought | the kettle |  |  |  | with a little kick from the inside | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent kettle=Eventuality with kick=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **roll** | past | kettle | full tilt |  |  |  | down the hill | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tilt=Theme |
| 3 | **come up** | past | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | thought |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | all large black kettle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **spin** | gerund | all large black kettle *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  | at a great pace | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over ground=Source at pace=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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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