The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 31
So in order to get at the truth, Little One-eye was told to go out with Little Two-eyes when she drove the goat to pasture, and to notice particularly what she got there, and whether anyone brought her food and drink.
Who acts: truth, Little, eye, anyone · What happens: get, tell, go out, drive, pasture, notice · To what, where: truth, Little, goat, 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 (truth, Little, eye, anyone), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 get | mark |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 in | fixed |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 truth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 10 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 told | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 eye | nummod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 One | punct |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | aux:pass |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 truth | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 told | xcomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 20 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyes | amod |
| 21 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 eyes | nummod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Two | punct |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 go | obl |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 drove | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drove | nsubj |
| 26 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | ccomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 goat | det |
| 28 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drove | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 pasture | mark |
| 30 | pasture | pasture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 goat | acl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 notice | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 notice | cc |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 notice | mark |
| 34 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | conj |
| 35 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 36 what | advmod |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 34 notice | obj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 got | nsubj |
| 38 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 what | acl:relcl |
| 39 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 got | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 brought | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 brought | cc |
| 42 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 44 brought | mark |
| 43 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 44 brought | nsubj |
| 44 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 notice | conj |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 food | nmod:poss |
| 46 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 brought | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 drink | cc |
| 48 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 food | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | the truth | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the truth not said here | Little | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Little not said here | with Little Two eyes; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with eye=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | drive | past | eye | the goat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pasture | to-infinitive | eye not said here | the goat not said here | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | notice | to-infinitive | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | get | past | eye | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | bring | past | anyone | eye's food and drink | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=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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