The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 110
So she climbed up and broke off a small branch with its silver leaves and golden fruit without any trouble, and gave it to the knight.
Who acts: eye, silver · What happens: climb up, break off, leave, give · To what, where: small branch, branch, knight
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 (eye, silver), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 broke | cc |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 broke | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 branch | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 branch | amod |
| 10 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obj |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 leaves | mark |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 silver | nmod:poss |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaves | nsubj |
| 14 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 broke | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fruit | cc |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fruit | amod |
| 17 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaves | conj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 trouble | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 trouble | det |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaves | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 knight | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 knight | det |
| 27 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | eye | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break off | past | eye not said here | a small branch | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | present | branch's silver | without any trouble | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | eye not said here | branch | the knight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to knight=Recipient |
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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