The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 84
Then they laughed and said, ‘You can have that if you want nothing more.’
Who acts: sisters, You · What happens: laugh, say, have, want · To what, where: 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 (sisters, 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 | 3 laughed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 want | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 want | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | advcl |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 want | obj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 nothing | amod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | sisters = sister | then | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sisters = sister not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | can | You | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/84/