The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 47
The next day the mother said to Little Three-eyes, ‘This time you shall go with Little Two-eyes and watch whether she eats anything out in the fields, and whether anyone brings her food and drink, for eat and drink she must secretly.’
Who acts: mother, time, anyone · What happens: say, go, watch, eat out, bring, eat · To what, where: anything, fields, food · 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 (mother, time, anyone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 8 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 9 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eyes | nummod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Three | punct |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 14 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | nsubj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyes | case |
| 20 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eyes | amod |
| 21 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 eyes | nummod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Two | punct |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 go | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 watch | cc |
| 25 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | conj |
| 26 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 28 eats | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 eats | nsubj |
| 28 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 watch | ccomp |
| 29 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 eats | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 eats | compound:prt |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 fields | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fields | det |
| 33 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 eats | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 brings | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 brings | cc |
| 36 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 38 brings | mark |
| 37 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 38 brings | nsubj |
| 38 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 food | nmod:poss |
| 40 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 brings | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 drink | cc |
| 42 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 food | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 eat | punct |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 eat | case |
| 45 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 brings | parataxis |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 drink | cc |
| 47 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 45 eat | conj |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 must | nsubj |
| 49 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 eat | conj |
| 50 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 49 must | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 brings | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | day | to Little Three eyes | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to eye=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | shall | this time | with Little Two eyes | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with eye=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | this time not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | eat out | present | mother | anything | the fields | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | |||
| 5 | bring | present | anyone | mother's food and drink | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 6 | eat | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | drink | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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