The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 32

Now when Little Two-eyes was setting out, Little One-eye came up to her and said, ‘I will go into the field with you and see if you take good care of the goat, and if you drive him properly to get grass.’

Who acts: Little Two eyes, Little One eye, I, you, goat · What happens: set out, come up, say, go, see, take · To what, where: little, field, good care, bleat, grass · 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 (Little Two eyes, Little One eye, I, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 setting	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 setting	advmod
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eyes	amod
4	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eyes	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Two	punct
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 setting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 setting	aux
8	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 setting	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 setting	punct
11	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eye	amod
12	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 eye	nummod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 One	punct
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	up	up	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 field	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 field	det
28	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 go	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 go	conj
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 take	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 take	nsubj
35	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 see	ccomp
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 care	amod
37	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 goat	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 goat	det
40	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 care	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 drive	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 drive	cc
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 drive	mark
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 drive	nsubj
45	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 came	parataxis
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 drive	obj
47	properly	properly	ADV	_	45 drive	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 get	mark
49	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 drive	advcl
50	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 get	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past · progressive	Little Two eyes				now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come up	past	Little One eye		little				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Little One eye not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	future	I			the field		with you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
5	see	infinitive	I not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	take a condition, not said to happen	present	you	good care of the goat					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
7	drive a condition, not said to happen	present	you	bleat				properly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	grass					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grass=Stimulus
9	care		the goat						nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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