The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 27
In the evening, when she went home with her goat, she found a little earthenware dish with the food that her sisters had thrown to her, but she did not touch it.
Who acts: eye · What happens: go, find, throw, not touch · To what, where: little earthenware dish, sisters, eye, food · 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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 went | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 goat | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 goat | nmod:poss |
| 11 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dish | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dish | amod |
| 17 | earthenware | earthenware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dish | compound |
| 18 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 food | det |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dish | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 thrown | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 thrown | aux |
| 26 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 found | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thrown | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 touch | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 touch | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 touch | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 touch | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 touch | advmod |
| 34 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 thrown | advcl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 touch | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | eye | evening | with eye's goat; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with goat=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | find | past | eye | a little earthenware dish | with the food | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dish=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | throw | past · perfect · passive | eye's sisters | eye | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to she=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not touch | past · do-support | eye | food | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
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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