The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 50
Little Three-eyes sat down; she was tired by the walk and the hot day, and Little Two-eyes sang the same little song again:
Who acts: Little Three eyes, eye, Little Two eyes · What happens: sit down, be, sing · To what, where: same little song
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 Three eyes, eye, Little Two eyes), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 2 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 eyes | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Three | punct |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 tired | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tired | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tired | cop |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sat | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 walk | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walk | det |
| 13 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tired | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 day | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 16 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walk | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sang | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sang | cc |
| 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 | 24 sang | nsubj |
| 24 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 song | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 song | amod |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 song | amod |
| 28 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sang | obj |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 sang | advmod |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Little Three eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | eye | by the walk and the hot day; tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | Little Two eyes | the same little song | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
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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