The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 26
‘That is a splendid way of housekeeping,’ thought Little Two-eyes, and she was quite happy and contented.
Who acts: That, eye · What happens: be, think, content · To what, where: splendid way, Little Two eyes
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 (That, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 way | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 housekeeping | case |
| 8 | housekeeping | housekeeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 13 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 eyes | nummod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Two | punct |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thought | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 happy | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 happy | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 happy | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happy | cop |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 happy | advmod |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thought | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 contented | cc |
| 23 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 happy | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a splendid way | of housekeeping | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Little Two eyes | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot eye=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | eye | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | content | participle | eye not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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