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title: In the meantime Blacky had filled the kettle with water, and having… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime Blacky had filled the kettle with water, and having put it on the fire, sat down quietly waiting for it to boil. Who acts: Blacky. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 74

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In the meantime Blacky had filled the kettle with water, and having put it on the fire, sat down quietly waiting for it to boil.

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**Who acts:** Blacky · **What happens:** fill, have, put, sit down, wait, boil · **To what, where:** kettle, meantime, fire

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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 (Blacky), 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:pg7277:13:74
# text = In the meantime Blacky had filled the kettle with water, and having put it on the fire, sat down quietly waiting for it to boil.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	reparandum	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · perfect | Blacky | the kettle |  | the meantime |  | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | past |  | kettle |  | the fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 4 | **sit down** | past |  |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for kettle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **boil** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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