The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 22
Then Little Two-eyes said the shortest grace she knew, and set to work and made a good dinner.
Who acts: Little Two eyes, eye · What happens: say, know, set, make · To what, where: shortest grace, good dinner · Speech: someone speaks here
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, eye), 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 said | 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 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grace | det |
| 8 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 grace | amod |
| 9 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grace | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 work | case |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 set | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dinner | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dinner | amod |
| 21 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Little Two eyes | the shortest grace | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | eye | the shortest grace not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer grace=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | to work | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | past | a good dinner | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dinner=Product |
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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