The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 46

So they went home, and Little Two-eyes again left her little dish untouched, and Little One-eye could not tell her mother why she would not eat, and said as an excuse, ‘I was so sleepy out-of-doors.’

Who acts: brooks, Little Two eyes, Little One eye, eye, I · What happens: go, leave, not tell, not eat, say, be · To what, where: little dish, mother, doors · 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 (brooks, Little Two eyes, Little 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
7	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eyes	amod
8	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 eyes	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Two	punct
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 left	nsubj
11	again	again	ADV	_	12 left	advmod
12	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dish	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dish	amod
15	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obj
16	untouched	untouched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 left	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tell	cc
19	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eye	amod
20	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 eye	nummod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 One	punct
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 tell	advmod
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	32 eat	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 eat	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 eat	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 eat	advmod
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tell	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 excuse	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 excuse	det
38	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sleepy	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	44 sleepy	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 sleepy	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 sleepy	cop
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 sleepy	advmod
44	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 said	parataxis
45	out	out	ADP	_	49 doors	case
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 out	punct
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 doors	case
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 of	punct
49	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 sleepy	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	brooks = brook					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past	Little Two eyes	eye's little dish			again	untouched property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	could	Little One eye		eye's mother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
4	not eat	would	eye						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	brooks = brook not said here					as a excuse	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	I			doors		sleepy property	tree rules

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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