The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 49

But little Two-eyes knew what Little Three-eyes had in her mind, and she drove the goat out into the tall grass and said, ‘We will sit down here, Little Three-eyes, and I will sing you something.’

Who acts: little Two eyes, Three eyes, eye, We, I · What happens: know, have, drive out, say, sit down, sing · To what, where: mind, goat, tall grass, something, you · 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, Three eyes, eye, We), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 knew	cc
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eyes	amod
3	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 eyes	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Two	punct
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 knew	obj
8	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 what	nsubj
9	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 eyes	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Three	punct
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 mind	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mind	nmod:poss
15	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drove	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drove	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drove	nsubj
19	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 goat	det
21	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drove	obj
22	out	out	ADV	_	19 drove	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 grass	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 grass	det
25	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grass	amod
26	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drove	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sit	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 sit	punct
31	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 sit	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sit	aux
33	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 sit	compound:prt
35	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 sit	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 eyes	punct
37	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 eyes	amod
38	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 eyes	nummod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 Three	punct
40	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sit	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sing	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sing	cc
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 sing	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 sing	aux
45	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sit	conj
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 sing	iobj
47	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	45 sing	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	little Two eyes					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	have	past	Three eyes			eye's mind		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	drive out	past	eye	the goat		the tall grass	out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goat=Theme into grass=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	past	little Two eyes not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sit down	future	We			here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sing speech: express	future	I	something	you			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary something=Theme
7	mind		eye					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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