The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 120

Then Little Two-eyes looked at then and recognised both her sisters, Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes, who had become so poor that they came to beg bread at her door.

Who acts: Little Two eyes, Little Three eyes, sisters · What happens: look, recognise, become, come, beg · To what, where: sisters, bread, door

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 (Little Two eyes, Little Three eyes, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 looked	advmod
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eyes	amod
3	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 eyes	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Two	punct
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 then	case
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 looked	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 recognised	cc
10	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	conj
11	both	both	CCONJ	_	13 sisters	cc:preconj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sisters	nmod:poss
13	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 recognised	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eye	punct
15	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eye	amod
16	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 eye	nummod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 One	punct
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sisters	appos
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eyes	cc
20	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyes	amod
21	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 eyes	nummod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Three	punct
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eye	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 become	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 become	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 become	aux
27	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 eyes	acl:relcl
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 poor	advmod
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 become	xcomp
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 poor	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 beg	mark
34	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 came	xcomp
35	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 beg	obj
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 door	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 door	nmod:poss
38	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 beg	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Little Two eyes			then		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at then=Theme
2	recognise	past	Little Two eyes not said here	eye's sisters				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus
3	become	past · perfect	Little Three eyes				poor property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	come	past	sisters = sister					tree rules
5	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	sisters = sister not said here	bread	eye's door			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bread=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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