The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 104

But they would have that the tree was theirs; and while they were saying this, Little Two-eyes rolled a couple of golden apples from under the cask, so that they lay at the knight’s feet, for she was angry with Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes for not speaking the truth.

Who acts: sisters, tree, Little Two eyes, eye · What happens: have, be, say, roll, lay, not speak · To what, where: hands, this, couple, feet, truth · 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 (sisters, tree, Little Two eyes, eye), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 have	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 theirs	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 theirs	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 theirs	cop
9	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 have	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saying	cc
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 saying	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saying	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	aux
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 have	advcl
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 saying	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rolled	punct
18	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eyes	amod
19	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 eyes	nummod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Two	punct
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rolled	nsubj
22	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 couple	det
24	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rolled	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 apples	case
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 apples	amod
27	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 couple	nmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 cask	case
29	under	under	ADP	_	31 cask	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cask	det
31	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 apples	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 lay	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lay	nsubj
36	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 rolled	parataxis
37	at	at	ADP	_	41 feet	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 knight	det
39	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 feet	nmod:poss
40	’s	's	PART	_	39 knight	case
41	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lay	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 angry	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 angry	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 angry	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 angry	cop
46	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 lay	advcl
47	with	with	ADP	_	51 eye	case
48	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 eye	amod
49	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 eye	nummod
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 One	punct
51	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 angry	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 eyes	cc
53	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 eyes	amod
54	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 eyes	nummod
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 Three	punct
56	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 eye	conj
57	for	for	SCONJ	_	59 speaking	mark
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 speaking	advmod
59	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 angry	advcl
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 truth	det
61	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 speaking	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	would	sisters = sister				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the tree	hands = hand			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · progressive	sisters = sister	this			tree rules
4	roll	past	Little Two eyes	a couple of golden apples from the cask			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Agent
5	lay	present	sisters = sister		the knight's feet		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination
6	is	past	eye			with Little One eye and Little Three eyes; angry property	tree rules
7	not speak speech: other	gerund	eye not said here	the truth			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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