The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 88

Then the mother said to Little One-eye, ‘Climb up, my child, and break us off the fruit from the tree.’

Who acts: mother · What happens: say, climb up, break · To what, where: child, us, tree · 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 (mother), 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	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 eye	case
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eye	amod
7	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eye	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 One	punct
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Climb	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Climb	punct
12	Climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 Climb	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 child	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 child	nmod:poss
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Climb	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 break	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 break	cc
19	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Climb	conj
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 break	obj
21	off	off	ADP	_	23 fruit	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fruit	det
23	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 break	obl
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 break	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Climb	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 Climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother			then	to Little One eye	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to eye=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	climb up	infinitive		my child				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	infinitive		us	the tree		off the fruit	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient off fruit=Co-Patient

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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