The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 260
She has the eyes of a deer already; let her have the horns of one.
Who acts: heart · What happens: have, let · To what, where: eyes, heart, horns
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eyes | det |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 deer | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deer | det |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod |
| 8 | already | already | ADV | _ | 2 has | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horns | det |
| 14 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 horns | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | heart | the eyes of a deer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | heart | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | heart not said here | the horns of one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
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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