The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 6
So she sat down in the meadow and began to cry, and she cried so much that two little brooks ran out of her eyes.
Who acts: eye, two little brooks · What happens: sit down, begin, cry, run · To what, where: meadow, eyes
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 (eye, two little brooks), 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 | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 meadow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meadow | det |
| 7 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cry | mark |
| 11 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 cried | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 ran | mark |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 brooks | nummod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 brooks | amod |
| 21 | brooks | brook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ran | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | eye | the meadow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | eye not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | eye not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | eye | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run | past | two little brooks | eye's eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Trajectory |
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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