The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 93

Then Little Two-eyes said, ‘I will just try once, perhaps I shall succeed better.’

Who acts: Little Two eyes, I · What happens: say, try, succeed · 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 (Little Two eyes, I), 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	6 said	advmod
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eyes	amod
3	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 eyes	nummod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Two	punct
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 try	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 try	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 try	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 try	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 try	advmod
12	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 try	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 succeed	punct
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 succeed	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 succeed	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 succeed	aux
18	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 try	conj
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 succeed	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Little Two eyes	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try	future	I		once property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	succeed	shall	I		good, perhaps property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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