The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 90
Then the mother said, ‘Little Three-eyes, do you climb up; you with your three eyes can see round better than Little One-eye.’
Who acts: mother, you · What happens: say, climb up, see · To what, where: Little Three eyes · 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, 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 | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eyes | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 eyes | punct |
| 7 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 8 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 eyes | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Three | punct |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 climb | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 climb | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 climb | nsubj |
| 14 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 climb | compound:prt |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 eyes | nummod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 you | nmod |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 24 | round | round | ADV | _ | 25 better | advmod |
| 25 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 see | xcomp |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 eye | case |
| 27 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 eye | amod |
| 28 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 eye | nummod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 One | punct |
| 30 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 better | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | Little Three eyes | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | climb up | present · do-support | you | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | can | you | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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