The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 106

Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes answered that they had another sister, but she could not be seen because she had only two eyes, like ordinary people.

Who acts: Little One eye, apples, eye · What happens: answer, have, not see · To what, where: sister, eye, two eyes · 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, apples, 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eye	amod
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eye	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 One	punct
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eyes	cc
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eyes	amod
7	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eyes	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Three	punct
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eye	conj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	ccomp
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 sister	det
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seen	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 seen	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seen	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 seen	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 seen	aux:pass
22	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 answered	ccomp
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seen	advcl
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 two	advmod
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 eyes	nummod
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 people	punct
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 people	case
31	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 people	amod
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Little One eye and Little Three eyes		tree rules
2	have	past	apples = apple	another sister	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
3	not see	could · passive		eye	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	have	past	eye	two eyes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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