The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 87
But they did not know how the tree had grown up in the night; only Little Two-eyes knew that it had sprung from the heart of the goat, for it was standing just where she had buried it in the ground.
Who acts: doors, tree, Little Two eyes, eye · What happens: not know, grow up, know, spring, stand, bury · To what, where: tree, heart, ground · 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 (doors, tree, Little Two eyes, eye), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 know | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 grown | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grown | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grown | aux |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 know | ccomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 grown | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grown | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 eyes | advmod |
| 17 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 18 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 eyes | nummod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Two | punct |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 sprung | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sprung | aux |
| 25 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 knew | ccomp |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 heart | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 heart | det |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sprung | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 goat | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 goat | det |
| 31 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 heart | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 standing | punct |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 standing | mark |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 standing | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 standing | aux |
| 36 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 sprung | advcl |
| 37 | just | just | ADV | _ | 41 buried | advmod |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 buried | advmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 buried | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 buried | aux |
| 41 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 standing | advcl |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 buried | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 ground | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 ground | det |
| 45 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 buried | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | doors = door | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | grow up | past · perfect | the tree | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Little Two eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | spring | past · perfect · passive | tree | the heart of the goat | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stand | past · progressive | tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bury | past · perfect | eye | tree | the ground | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in ground=Destination |
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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