Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 45
By and by Three-Eyes closed two of her eyes, and went to sleep with them; but the third eye, which was not spoken to, kept open.
Who acts: Three Eyes · What happens: close, go, sleep, not speak, keep · To what, where: two, third eye · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three Eyes), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 6 Eyes | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Eyes | cc |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Eyes | case |
| 4 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Eyes | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Three | punct |
| 6 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Eyes | acl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 closed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 two | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 two | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sleep | mark |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sleep | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 kept | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 kept | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 eye | det |
| 22 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 eye | amod |
| 23 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spoken | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 spoken | aux:pass |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 spoken | advmod |
| 28 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 eye | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 spoken | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kept | punct |
| 31 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 went | parataxis |
| 32 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 kept | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Eyes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle | Three Eyes not said here | two of Eye's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Three Eyes not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | Three Eyes not said here | with walk | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not speak speech: other | past · passive | the third eye | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | keep | participle · passive | the third eye | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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