The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 119
Once two poor women came to the castle to beg alms.
Who acts: two poor women · What happens: come, beg · To what, where: castle, alms
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 (two poor women), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 women | nummod |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 women | amod |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 beg | mark |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | advcl |
| 11 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beg | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | two poor women | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | two poor women not said here | alms | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent alm=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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