The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 3
They would say to her, ‘You with your two eyes are no better than common folk; you don’t belong to us.’
Who acts: sisters, You · What happens: say, not be, not belong · To what, where: eye, us · 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 (sisters, You), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 say | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 better | nsubj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 better | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 eyes | nummod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 better | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | cop |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 better | advmod |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 say | parataxis |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 folk | case |
| 17 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 folk | amod |
| 18 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 better | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 belong | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 belong | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 belong | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 belong | advmod |
| 23 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 belong | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | sisters = sister | eye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | You | than common folk; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not belong | present · do-support | you | us | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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