The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 101

Then Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes answered that the tree belonged to them, and that they would certainly break him off a twig.

Who acts: Little One eye, tree, sisters · What happens: answer, belong, break off · To what, where: sisters, knight · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Little One eye, tree, sisters), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 answered	advmod
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eye	amod
3	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 eye	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 One	punct
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eyes	cc
7	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eyes	amod
8	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 eyes	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Three	punct
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eye	conj
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 belonged	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 belonged	nsubj
15	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 belonged	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 break	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 break	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 break	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 break	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 break	aux
23	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	24 break	advmod
24	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 break	obj
26	off	off	ADP	_	24 break	compound:prt
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 twig	det
28	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 break	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Little One eye and Little Three eyes			then		tree rules
2	belong	past	the tree		sisters = sister			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	break off	would	sisters = sister	knight			certainly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Patient twig=Result

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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