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title: But Blacky very wisely had not put the lid on the kettle, and, with… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 76

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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.

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**Who acts:** Blacky, yelp, pain · **What happens:** not put, fall, boil, escape, pop on, scald · **To what, where:** lid, kettle, boiling water, fox

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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, yelp, pain), 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:pg7277:13:76
# text = 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.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	wisely	wisely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	yelp	yelp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	popped	pop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	scalded	scald	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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