The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 80
‘Have I not reason to cry?’ she answered, ‘the goat, which when I said the little rhyme, spread the table so beautifully, my mother has killed, and now I must suffer hunger and want again.’
Who acts: I, woman, goat · What happens: have, not reason, cry, answer, say, spread · To what, where: goat, table, mother, hunger · 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 (I, woman, goat), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 reason | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 reason | advmod |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cry | mark |
| 7 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reason | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Have | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 spread | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 spread | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 goat | det |
| 15 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spread | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 said | obj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 said | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 goat | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rhyme | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rhyme | amod |
| 23 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 goat | punct |
| 25 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 table | det |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spread | obj |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 beautifully | advmod |
| 29 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 25 spread | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 killed | punct |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 killed | aux |
| 34 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 spread | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 suffer | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 suffer | cc |
| 37 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 suffer | advmod |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 suffer | nsubj |
| 39 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 suffer | aux |
| 40 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 killed | parataxis |
| 41 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 suffer | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 want | cc |
| 43 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 suffer | conj |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 want | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not reason | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | I | the goat | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme rhyme=Manner | ||||
| 6 | spread | past | the goat | the table | beautifully property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location table=Theme | |||
| 7 | kill | present · perfect · passive | my mother | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 8 | suffer | must | I | hunger | now | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus | |||
| 9 | want | present | I not said here | again | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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