The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 89

Little One-eye climbed up, but just when she was going to take hold of one of the golden apples the bough sprang out of her hands; and this happened every time, so that she could not break off a single apple, however hard she tried.

Who acts: eye, bough, this · What happens: climb up, go, take, spring out, happen, not break off · To what, where: Little One eye, hold, hands, single apple

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 (eye, bough, this), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eye	amod
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 eye	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 One	punct
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obl:unmarked
5	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 climbed	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 going	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 going	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 climbed	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	xcomp
16	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hold	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 apples	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 apples	det
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 apples	amod
22	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bough	det
24	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sprang	nsubj
25	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 apples	acl:relcl
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 hands	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 hands	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sprang	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 happened	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 happened	cc
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 happened	nsubj
33	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	parataxis
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 time	det
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 happened	obl:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 break	punct
37	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 break	mark
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 so	fixed
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 break	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 break	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 break	advmod
42	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 happened	conj
43	off	off	ADP	_	42 break	compound:prt
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 apple	det
45	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 apple	amod
46	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 break	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 tried	punct
48	however	however	ADV	_	49 hard	advmod
49	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 tried	advmod
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 tried	nsubj
51	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 break	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	participle		Little One eye			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	eye				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	to-infinitive	eye not said here	hold of one of the golden apples			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	spring out	past	the bough	eye's hands			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hand=Theme
5	happen	past	this		time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not break off	could	eye	a single apple			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Patient
7	try	past	eye			hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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