The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 8
Little Two-eyes answered, ‘Have I not reason to cry?
Who acts: Little Two eyes, I · What happens: answer, not reason, cry
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, 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 2 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 eyes | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Two | punct |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reason | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 reason | punct |
| 8 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 reason | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 reason | nsubj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 reason | advmod |
| 11 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cry | mark |
| 13 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 reason | acl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Little Two eyes | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not reason | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | Little Two eyes not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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