The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 78
When Little Two-eyes saw this, she went out full of grief, and sat down in the meadow and wept bitter tears.
Who acts: Little Two eyes, eye · What happens: see, go out, sit down, weep · To what, where: this, meadow, bitter tears
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, eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:2782): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Little | Little | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | compound |
| 3 | Two | Two | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Two | punct |
| 5 | eyes | eye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 grief | case |
| 14 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sat | cc |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 sat | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 meadow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 meadow | det |
| 21 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wept | cc |
| 23 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 24 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tears | amod |
| 25 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wept | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Little Two eyes | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | eye | full, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | eye not said here | the meadow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location | ||||
| 4 | weep | past | eye not said here | bitter tears | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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