The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 69

When they reached home, Little Two-eyes did not eat again, and Little Three-eyes said to the mother, ‘I know now why that proud thing eats nothing.

Who acts: fields, Little Two eyes, Little Three eyes, I, proud thing · What happens: reach, not eat, say, know, eat · To what, where: mother, nothing · 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 (fields, Little Two eyes, Little Three eyes, I), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 reached	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eyes	amod
7	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eyes	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Two	punct
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 eat	advmod
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 eat	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
16	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eyes	amod
17	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 eyes	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Three	punct
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 mother	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mother	det
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
27	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	parataxis
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 know	advmod
29	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	33 eats	advmod
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 thing	det
31	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thing	amod
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eats	nsubj
33	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 know	conj
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 eats	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	fields = field				home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not eat	past · do-support	Little Two eyes			again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Little Three eyes		the mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
4	know	present	I			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	eat	present	that proud thing	nothing				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

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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