The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 39
‘Little goat, bleat, Little table, appear,’
Who acts: Little goat · What happens: appear
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 goat), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 goat | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goat | amod |
| 3 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appear | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bleat | punct |
| 5 | bleat | bleat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goat | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 table | punct |
| 7 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 table | amod |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goat | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 goat | punct |
| 10 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 appear | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | Little goat and bleat and Little table | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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