The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 112

‘Ah,’ answered Little Two-eyes, ‘I suffer hunger and thirst, want and sorrow, from early morning till late in the evening; if you would take me with you, and free me from this, I should be happy!’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: answer, suffer, thirst, want, sorrow, take · To what, where: Little Two eyes, hunger, me

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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	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 suffer	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 suffer	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 suffer	nsubj
13	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
14	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 suffer	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thirst	cc
16	thirst	thirst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 suffer	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
18	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thirst	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sorrow	cc
20	sorrow	sorrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 thirst	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 morning	punct
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 morning	case
23	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 morning	amod
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thirst	parataxis
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 late	mark
26	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 morning	amod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 evening	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 evening	det
29	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 late	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 take	punct
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 take	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 take	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 take	aux
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	parataxis
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 take	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 take	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 free	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 free	cc
40	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 take	advcl
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 free	nsubj
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 this	case
43	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 free	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 happy	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 happy	nsubj
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 happy	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 happy	cop
48	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 take	parataxis
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	48 happy	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past		Little Two eyes			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality
2	suffer	present	I	hunger			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus
3	thirst	present	I not said here				vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot
4	want	present	I not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	sorrow	present	I not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	take a condition, not said to happen	would	you		me	with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
7	is	should	I			happy 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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