The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 91

So Little One-eye slid down, and Little Three-eyes climbed up; but she was not any more successful; look round as she might, the golden apples bent themselves back.

Who acts: Little One eye, Little Three eyes, eye, golden apples · What happens: slide down, climb up, not be, look round, bend back · To what, where: apples

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 One eye, Little Three eyes, eye, golden apples), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 slid	advmod
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eye	amod
3	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 eye	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 One	punct
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slid	nsubj
6	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 slid	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 climbed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 climbed	cc
10	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eyes	amod
11	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 eyes	nummod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Three	punct
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 climbed	nsubj
14	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slid	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 climbed	compound:prt
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 successful	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 successful	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 successful	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 successful	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 successful	advmod
21	any	any	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 successful	advmod
23	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 slid	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 look	punct
25	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 successful	parataxis
26	round	round	ADV	_	25 look	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 might	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 might	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 look	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bent	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 apples	det
32	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 apples	amod
33	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bent	nsubj
34	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slid	conj
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 bent	obj
36	back	back	ADV	_	34 bent	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 slid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slide down	past	Little One eye			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	climb up	past	Little Three eyes			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	past	eye		successful property	tree rules
4	look round	infinitive			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	bend back	past	the golden apples	apples = apple		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent themselves=Material

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/91/