The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 79
Then again the wise woman stood before her, and said, ‘Little Two-eyes, what are you crying for?’
Who acts: wise woman, you · What happens: stand, say, cry · To what, where: Little Two eyes · 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 (wise woman, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 stood | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eyes | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 eyes | punct |
| 14 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 15 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 eyes | nummod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Two | punct |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crying | punct |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 crying | obj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 crying | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 crying | nsubj |
| 22 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 eyes | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 crying | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 crying | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 eyes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the wise woman | before eye; again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wise woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | 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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