The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 44
Little Two-eyes then woke Little One-eye and said, ‘Little One-eye, you meant to watch, and, instead, you went to sleep; in the meantime the goat might have run far and wide.
Who acts: Little Two eyes, you · What happens: wake, say, mean, watch, go, sleep · To what, where: Little, goat, meantime · 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, 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 2 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 eyes | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Two | punct |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 woke | nsubj |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 woke | advmod |
| 6 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woke | obj |
| 8 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 eye | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 One | punct |
| 10 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woke | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woke | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Little | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Little | punct |
| 15 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 eye | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 One | punct |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Little | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 meant | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 meant | nsubj |
| 21 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woke | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 watch | mark |
| 23 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 meant | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 and | punct |
| 27 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 instead | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 meant | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 sleep | mark |
| 32 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 went | xcomp |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 run | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 meantime | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 meantime | det |
| 36 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 run | obl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 goat | det |
| 38 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 run | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 run | aux |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 run | aux |
| 41 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 meant | conj |
| 42 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 run | advmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 wide | cc |
| 44 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 run | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | Little Two eyes | Little | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Little Two eyes not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | past | you | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | past | you | instead property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | run | might · perfect · passive | the goat | the meantime | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in meantime=Trajectory |
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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