The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 83
Then she disappeared, and Little Two-eyes went home, and said to her sisters, ‘Dear sisters, do give me something of my goat; I ask nothing better than its heart.’
Who acts: woman, Little Two eyes, I · What happens: disappear, go, say, give, ask · To what, where: sisters, something, me, nothing · 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 (woman, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 disappeared | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 disappeared | nsubj |
| 3 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 6 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 7 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 eyes | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Two | punct |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disappeared | conj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disappeared | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sisters | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sisters | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 sisters | punct |
| 20 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sisters | amod |
| 21 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sisters | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 give | punct |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 give | aux |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 give | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 goat | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 goat | nmod:poss |
| 29 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 something | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 ask | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 ask | nsubj |
| 32 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 disappeared | parataxis |
| 33 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 32 ask | obj |
| 34 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 ask | xcomp |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 heart | case |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 better | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappeared | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | woman | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Little Two eyes | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | woman's sisters and Dear sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | give | present · do-support | something | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | I | nothing | good property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient |
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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