The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 96

The mother took them from her, and, instead of behaving better to poor Little Two-eyes, as they ought to have done, they were jealous that she only could reach the fruit and behaved still more unkindly to her.

Who acts: mother, apples, eye · What happens: take, behave, do, be, reach · To what, where: apples, fruit

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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 behaving	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 behaving	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 behaving	punct
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 behaving	mark
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	behaving	behave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	advcl
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 behaving	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	19 eyes	case
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eyes	amod
16	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eyes	amod
17	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 eyes	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Two	punct
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 behaving	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 done	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 done	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 done	nsubj
23	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	26 done	mark
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 done	aux
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 took	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 jealous	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 jealous	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 jealous	cop
30	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 reach	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 reach	nsubj
33	only	only	ADV	_	35 reach	advmod
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 reach	aux
35	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 jealous	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fruit	det
37	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reach	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 behaved	cc
39	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 reach	conj
40	still	still	ADV	_	42 unkindly	advmod
41	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 unkindly	advmod
42	unkindly	unkindly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 behaved	xcomp
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 her	case
44	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 unkindly	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	the mother	apples = apple	from eye	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from she=Initial_Location
2	behave	gerund	the mother not said here		to poor Little Two eyes; good property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
3	do	ought · perfect	apples = apple			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	apples = apple		jealous property	tree rules
5	reach	could	eye	the fruit		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
6	behave	participle	eye not said here		unkindly property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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