The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 108
Then Little Two-eyes came out from under the cask quite happily, and the knight was astonished at her great beauty, and said, ‘Little Two-eyes, I am sure you can break me off a twig from the tree.’
Who acts: Little Two eyes, knight, I, you · What happens: come out, be, say, break off · To what, where: cask, great beauty, Little Two eyes, me, tree · 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 Two eyes, knight, I, you), 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 | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 3 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eyes | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Two | punct |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 cask | case |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 cask | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cask | det |
| 11 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 happily | advmod |
| 13 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 11 cask | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 astonished | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 astonished | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 knight | det |
| 17 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 astonished | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 astonished | cop |
| 19 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 beauty | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beauty | amod |
| 23 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 astonished | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 eyes | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 eyes | punct |
| 29 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 eyes | amod |
| 30 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 eyes | nummod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Two | punct |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 said | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sure | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 sure | nsubj |
| 35 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sure | cop |
| 36 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | parataxis |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 break | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 break | aux |
| 39 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 sure | ccomp |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 break | obj |
| 41 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 break | compound:prt |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 twig | det |
| 43 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 break | obj |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 tree | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 tree | det |
| 46 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 break | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 sure | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Little Two eyes | the cask | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | is | past | the knight | eye's great beauty | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Little Two eyes not said here | Little Two eyes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | break off | can | you | me | the tree | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=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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