The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 76
She made two of my eyes go to sleep with a little rhyme, but the one in my forehead remained awake, luckily!’
Who acts: thing, two, one · What happens: make, go, sleep, remain
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 (thing, two, one), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 go | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 two | nmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 rhyme | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rhyme | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rhyme | amod |
| 13 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sleep | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 remained | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 remained | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remained | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forehead | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 20 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 22 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 remained | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 luckily | punct |
| 24 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 21 remained | advmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | present | two of my eyes | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | two of my eyes not said here | with a little rhyme | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | the one in my forehead | awake, luckily property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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