The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 85
And Little Two-eyes took the heart and buried it in the evening when all was quiet, as the wise woman had told her, before the house-door.
Who acts: Little Two eyes, all · What happens: take, bury, be, tell · To what, where: heart, house door, wise woman, eye · 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 (Little Two eyes, all), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 3 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eyes | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Two | punct |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 buried | cc |
| 10 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 buried | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 evening | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 evening | det |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buried | obl |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 quiet | advmod |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 quiet | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 quiet | cop |
| 18 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 buried | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 told | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woman | det |
| 22 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 woman | amod |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 told | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | aux |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 quiet | advcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | iobj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 door | punct |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 door | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 door | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 house | punct |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buried | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Little Two eyes | the heart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bury | past | Little Two eyes not said here | heart | the house door | evening | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before door=Destination | ||
| 3 | is | past | all | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the wise woman | eye | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic |
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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