The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 29

The first and second times her sisters did not notice this, but when it happened continually, they remarked it and said, ‘Something is the matter with Little Two-eyes, for she always leaves her food now, and she used to gobble up all that was given her.

Who acts: it, sisters, Something, eye · What happens: not notice, happen, remark, say, be, leave · To what, where: this, food, matter, that, eye · 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 (it, sisters, Something, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 times	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 times	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 second	cc
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 first	conj
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 notice	obl:unmarked
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sisters	nmod:poss
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 times	conj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 notice	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 notice	advmod
10	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 notice	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 remarked	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 remarked	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 happened	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 happened	nsubj
16	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 remarked	advcl
17	continually	continually	ADV	_	16 happened	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happened	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 remarked	nsubj
20	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 notice	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 remarked	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 remarked	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 matter	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 matter	punct
26	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 matter	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 matter	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 matter	det
29	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	ccomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	34 eyes	case
31	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 eyes	amod
32	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 eyes	nummod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Two	punct
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 matter	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 leaves	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 leaves	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 leaves	nsubj
38	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	39 leaves	advmod
39	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 notice	parataxis
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 food	nmod:poss
41	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 leaves	obj
42	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 leaves	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 used	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 used	cc
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 used	nsubj
46	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 leaves	conj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 gobble	mark
48	gobble	gobble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 used	xcomp
49	up	up	ADP	_	48 gobble	compound:prt
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 given	det:predet
51	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 given	nsubj:pass
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 given	aux:pass
53	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 gobble	advcl
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 given	iobj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 notice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	past · do-support		this		time		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	happen	past	it				continually property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remark speech: assert	past	sisters = sister	food				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	sisters = sister not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	Something	the matter			with Little Two eyes	tree rules
6	leave	present	eye	eye's food		now	always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
7	use	past	eye					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	gobble up	to-infinitive	eye not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	give	past · passive		that	eye			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=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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