The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 11

Then the wise woman said, ‘Little Two-eyes, dry your eyes, and I will tell you something so that you need never be hungry again.

Who acts: wise woman, I, you · What happens: say, dry, tell, not be · To what, where: Little Two eyes, eyes, something, you · 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 (wise woman, 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	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eyes	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 eyes	punct
8	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eyes	amod
9	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 eyes	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Two	punct
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dry	punct
13	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dry	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tell	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 tell	obj
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 hungry	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 hungry	nsubj
26	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 hungry	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 hungry	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 hungry	cop
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tell	advcl
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 hungry	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wise woman	Little Two eyes		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	dry	infinitive	the wise woman not said here	your eyes				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result
3	tell speech: assert	future	I	something	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic
4	not is	present	you			again	hungry property	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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