The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 95
But Little Two-eyes climbed up, and the golden apples did not jump away from her, but behaved quite properly, so that she could pluck them off, one after the other, and brought a whole apron-full down with her.
Who acts: Little Two eyes, golden apples, eye · What happens: climb up, not jump away, behave, pluck off, bring · 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 Two eyes, golden apples, eye), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 climbed | cc |
| 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 climbed | nsubj |
| 6 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 climbed | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jump | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jump | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 apples | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 apples | amod |
| 12 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 jump | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 jump | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 jump | advmod |
| 15 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 climbed | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 jump | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 jump | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 behaved | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 behaved | cc |
| 21 | behaved | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climbed | parataxis |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 properly | advmod |
| 23 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 21 behaved | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pluck | punct |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 pluck | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pluck | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 pluck | aux |
| 29 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 behaved | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pluck | obj |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 pluck | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 one | punct |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 pluck | obl |
| 34 | after | after | ADP | _ | 36 other | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 other | det |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 one | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 brought | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 brought | cc |
| 39 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 behaved | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 full | det |
| 41 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 full | nsubj |
| 42 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 full | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 apron | punct |
| 44 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 brought | ccomp |
| 45 | down | down | ADV | _ | 44 full | advmod |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 her | case |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 full | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | participle | Little Two eyes | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not jump away | past · do-support | the golden apples | from eye; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from she=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | behave | past | properly property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pluck off | could | eye | apples = apple | one after the other obl | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 5 | bring | past | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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