The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 121
But Little Two-eyes bade them welcome, and was so good to them that they both repented from their hearts of having been so unkind to their sister.
Who acts: Little Two eyes, sisters · What happens: bade, be, repent · To what, where: sisters, hearts
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 bade | cc |
| 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 bade | nsubj |
| 6 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | obj |
| 8 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bade | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 good | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 good | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 good | advmod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bade | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 good | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 repented | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 repented | nsubj |
| 18 | both | both | ADV | _ | 19 repented | advmod |
| 19 | repented | repent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 good | advcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 hearts | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 repented | obj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 unkind | mark |
| 24 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 unkind | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 unkind | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 unkind | advmod |
| 27 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hearts | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 sister | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sister | nmod:poss |
| 30 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 unkind | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Little Two eyes | sisters = sister | welcome property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | sisters = sister | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | repent | past | sisters = sister | sisters's hearts | both property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | gerund · perfect | sisters = sister not said here | to sisters's sister; unkind 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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