The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 10
To-day they have given me so little that I am still quite hungry.’
Who acts: sisters, I · What happens: give, be · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little 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 (sisters, I), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 given | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 given | iobj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 given | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 hungry | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hungry | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hungry | cop |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 hungry | advmod |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 hungry | advmod |
| 15 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 given | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | sisters = sister | me | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | still | hungry property | tree rules |
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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