The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 107
But the knight demanded to see her, and called out, ‘Little Two-eyes, come forth.’
Who acts: knight · What happens: demand, see, call out, come · To what, where: Little Two eyes, eye
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 (knight), 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 demanded | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 demanded | nsubj |
| 4 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 demanded | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 demanded | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eyes | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 eyes | punct |
| 14 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 15 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 eyes | nummod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Two | punct |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 demanded | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 demanded | conj |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 demanded | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | the knight | Little Two eyes | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the knight not said here | eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | the knight not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | the knight not said here | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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