The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 61
And when Little Two-eyes thought that Little Three-eyes was sound asleep, she said her rhyme,
Who acts: Little Two eyes, Three eyes, eye · What happens: think, be, say, rhyme · To what, where: rhyme · 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 (Little Two eyes, Three 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 thought | advmod |
| 3 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eyes | amod |
| 4 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 eyes | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Two | punct |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 asleep | mark |
| 9 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Three | amod |
| 10 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Three | punct |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 asleep | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 asleep | cop |
| 14 | sound | sound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 asleep | amod |
| 15 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 rhyme | nmod:poss |
| 20 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Little Two eyes | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Three eyes | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | eye | eye's rhyme | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic | ||||
| 4 | rhyme | eye | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=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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