The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 59
so that the two eyes of Little Three-eyes fell asleep, but the third, which was not spoken to in the little rhyme, did not fall asleep.
Who acts: two eyes · What happens: fall, not speak, not fall · 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 (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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fell | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 fell | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eyes | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eyes | nummod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 7 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 8 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 eyes | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Three | punct |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eyes | nmod |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fell | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 third | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 third | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 third | det |
| 16 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 fell | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spoken | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 spoken | aux:pass |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 spoken | advmod |
| 21 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 third | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 rhyme | case |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 rhyme | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rhyme | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rhyme | amod |
| 26 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spoken | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fall | punct |
| 28 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 fall | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 fall | advmod |
| 30 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fell | conj |
| 31 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fall | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the two eyes of Little Three eyes | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not speak speech: other | past · passive | to the little rhyme | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not fall | past · do-support | the two eyes of Little Three eyes not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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