The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 2

But because Little Two-eyes did not look any different from other children, her sisters and mother could not bear her.

Who acts: Little Two eyes, sisters · What happens: not look, not bear · To what, where: 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 (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	_	9 look	cc
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 look	mark
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eyes	amod
4	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eyes	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Two	punct
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 look	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 look	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 look	advmod
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 different	det
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 children	case
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 children	amod
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 different	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sisters	punct
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sisters	nmod:poss
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bear	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 mother	cc
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sisters	conj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bear	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 bear	advmod
22	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 look	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bear	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	past · do-support	Little Two eyes					different property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not bear	could	eye's sisters and mother	eye					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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