The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 5

It happened one day that Little Two-eyes had to go out into the fields to take care of the goat, but she was still quite hungry because her sisters had given her so little to eat.

Who acts: It, Little Two eyes, eye · What happens: happen, have, go out, take, be, give · To what, where: fields, care, sisters, eye

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 (It, Little Two eyes, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl:unmarked
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eyes	amod
7	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eyes	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Two	punct
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 fields	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fields	det
16	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 go	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 take	mark
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	advcl
19	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 goat	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 goat	det
22	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hungry	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 hungry	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hungry	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hungry	cop
27	still	still	ADV	_	29 hungry	advmod
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 hungry	advmod
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happened	parataxis
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 given	mark
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sisters	nmod:poss
32	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 given	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 given	aux
34	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 hungry	advcl
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 given	iobj
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 little	advmod
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 given	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 eat	mark
39	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 little	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It				day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Little Two eyes						tree rules
3	go out	to-infinitive	Little Two eyes not said here			the fields		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	to-infinitive	Little Two eyes not said here	care				of the goat	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of goat=Initial_Location
5	is	past	eye				still	hungry property	tree rules
6	give	past · perfect · passive		eye's sisters	eye			little obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme
7	eat	to-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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