The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 115
When the handsome knight carried Little Two-eyes away with him, the two sisters envied her good luck at first.
Who acts: handsome knight, two sisters · What happens: carry, envy · To what, where: Little Two eyes, eye
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 (handsome knight, two sisters), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 carried | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 3 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knight | amod |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 envied | advcl |
| 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 carried | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 carried | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sisters | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sisters | nummod |
| 16 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 envied | nsubj |
| 17 | envied | envy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 envied | obj |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 luck | amod |
| 20 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 envied | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 first | case |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 envied | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 envied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the handsome knight | Little Two eyes | with wedding; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | envy | past | the two sisters | eye | 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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