The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 7

But when she looked up once in her grief there stood a woman beside her who asked, ‘Little Two-eyes, what are you crying for?’

Who acts: eye, you · What happens: look up, stand, ask, cry · To what, where: woman, Little Two 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, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 stood	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looked	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 looked	compound:prt
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 looked	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 grief	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grief	nmod:poss
9	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stood	advmod
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obj
14	beside	beside	ADP	_	17 asked	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 asked	nmod:poss
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eyes	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 eyes	punct
20	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyes	amod
21	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 eyes	nummod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Two	punct
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stood	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 crying	punct
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 crying	obj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 crying	aux
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 crying	nsubj
28	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 eyes	acl
29	for	for	ADP	_	28 crying	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 crying	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look up	past	eye			in eye's grief; once property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in grief=Theme
2	stand	past		a woman	there	Little Two eyes obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	past					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	present · progressive	you	Little Two eyes			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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