--- title: Two-Eyes said a short grace, and then began to eat; and when she had… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Two-Eyes said a short grace, and then began to eat; and when she had finished she pronounced the words which the wise Woman had told her: Who acts: Two Eyes, Eye. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimm's Fairy Stories](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/) / [Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/) / 19 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 19 Two-Eyes said a short grace, and then began to eat; and when she had finished she pronounced the words which the wise Woman had told her: **Who acts:** Two Eyes, Eye · **What happens:** say, begin, eat, finish, pronounce, tell · **To what, where:** short grace, words, wise Woman, Eye · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and 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 (Two Eyes, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:25:19 # text = Two-Eyes said a short grace, and then began to eat; and when she had finished she pronounced the words which the wise Woman had told her: 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 pronounced pronounce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 appos _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Two Eyes | a short grace | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grace=Topic | | 2 | **begin** | past | Two Eyes *not said here* | | | | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Two Eyes *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **finish** | past · perfect | Eye | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **pronounce** | past | Eye | the words | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | the wise Woman | Eye | | | | tree rules | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/20/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/)