The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 38

When Little Two-eyes saw that Little One-eye was asleep and could find out nothing, she said,

Who acts: Little Two eyes, One eye, eye · What happens: see, be, find out, say · To what, where: nothing · 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, One eye, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 saw	advmod
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eyes	amod
3	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 eyes	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Two	punct
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 asleep	mark
8	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 One	amod
9	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 eye	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 One	punct
11	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asleep	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asleep	cop
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saw	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 find	cc
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asleep	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 find	compound:prt
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 find	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Little Two eyes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	One eye		asleep property	tree rules
3	find out	could	One eye not said here	nothing		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	eye			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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