The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 34
Little One-eye sat down, and as she was very much tired by the long walk to which she was not used, and by the hot day, and as Little Two-eyes went on singing.
Who acts: Little One eye, eye, Little Two eyes · What happens: sit down, be, not use, go, sing · To what, where: eye
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 One eye, eye, Little Two eyes), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eye | amod |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 eye | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 One | punct |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tired | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tired | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 tired | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tired | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tired | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 tired | advmod |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sat | parataxis |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 walk | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 walk | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 walk | amod |
| 18 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tired | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 used | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 used | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 used | aux:pass |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 used | advmod |
| 24 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 walk | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 day | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 day | cc |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 29 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 day | amod |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 went | cc |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 went | mark |
| 34 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 eyes | amod |
| 35 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 eyes | nummod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Two | punct |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 went | nsubj |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 39 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 40 singing | mark |
| 40 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 went | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Little One eye | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | eye | by the long walk; tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not use | past · passive | eye | to the long walk | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Little Two eyes | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | Little Two eyes not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: 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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