--- title: When Two-Eyes, therefore, was about to set off, One-Eye told her she… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: When Two-Eyes, therefore, was about to set off, One-Eye told her she was going with her to see whether she took proper care of the goat and fed her sufficiently. Who acts: Eye, goat. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eye, goat), 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:pg11027:25:26 # text = When Two-Eyes, therefore, was about to set off, One-Eye told her she was going with her to see whether she took proper care of the goat and fed her sufficiently. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 2 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Eye Eye PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 26 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 fed feed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 sufficiently sufficiently ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **set off** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Eye | | attention | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** | past · progressive | Eye | | | | | with attention | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary | | 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | Eye *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **take** | past | Eye | proper care of the goat | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 7 | **feed** | past | Eye *not said here* | | Eye | | | sufficiently *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 8 | **care** | | the goat | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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:** «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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/27/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/)