The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 109
‘Yes,’ answered Little Two-eyes, ‘I can, for the tree is mine.’
Who acts: tree · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: Little Two eyes, mine
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 (tree), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 7 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 eyes | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Two | punct |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 can | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 can | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 can | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mine | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 mine | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mine | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mine | cop |
| 19 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Little Two eyes | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the tree | mine | 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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