The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 48
So Little Three-eyes went to Little Two-eyes and said, ‘I will go with you and see if you take good care of the goat, and if you drive him properly to get grass.’
Who acts: Three eyes, I, you, goat · What happens: go, say, see, take, drive, get · To what, where: Little Two eyes, good care, bleat, grass · 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 (Three eyes, I, you, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 So | amod |
| 3 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eyes | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Three | punct |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eyes | nummod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Two | punct |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 go | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | conj |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 take | nsubj |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | ccomp |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 care | amod |
| 27 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 goat | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 goat | det |
| 30 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 care | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 drive | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 drive | cc |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 drive | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 drive | nsubj |
| 35 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 drive | obj |
| 37 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 35 drive | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 get | mark |
| 39 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 drive | advcl |
| 40 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 get | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Three eyes | Little Two eyes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to eye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Three eyes not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | future | I | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | you | good care of the goat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 6 | drive a condition, not said to happen | present | you | bleat | properly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 7 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | grass | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grass=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | care | the goat | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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