The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 37
she shut her one eye and fell asleep.
Who acts: eye · What happens: shut, fall · To what, where: one 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 (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 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eye | nmod:poss |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eye | nummod |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shut | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shut | conj |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fell | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past | eye | eye's one eye | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | eye not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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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