The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 60
Of course Little Three-eyes shut that eye also out of cunning, to look as if she were asleep, but it was blinking and could see everything quite well.
Who acts: eye, cunning · What happens: look, be, blink, see · To what, where: everything
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, cunning), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Little | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shut | obl |
| 4 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 eyes | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Three | punct |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shut | nsubj |
| 7 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 eye | det |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shut | nsubj |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 cunning | advmod |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cunning | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cunning | case |
| 13 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eye | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 shut | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 asleep | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 asleep | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asleep | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 asleep | cop |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 look | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 blinking | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 blinking | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 blinking | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 blinking | aux |
| 26 | blinking | blink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 asleep | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 see | cc |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 see | aux |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 blinking | conj |
| 30 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 see | obj |
| 31 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 32 well | advmod |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 see | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | eye | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blink | past · progressive | cunning | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | could | cunning not said here | everything | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
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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