The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 81
The wise woman said, ‘Little Two-eyes, I will give you a good piece of advice.
Who acts: wise woman, I · What happens: say, give · To what, where: good piece, you · 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eyes | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 eyes | punct |
| 7 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 8 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 eyes | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Two | punct |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 piece | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 piece | amod |
| 18 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 advice | case |
| 20 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 piece | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the wise woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | future | I | a good piece of advice | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=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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