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title: So Three-Eyes told her sister that she was going to accompany her th… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: So Three-Eyes told her sister that she was going to accompany her that morning to see if she took care of the goat and fed her well; but Two-Eyes saw through her design, and drove the goat again to the best feeding-place. Who acts: Three Eyes, Eye, Two Eyes, goat. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Storie
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 35

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So Three-Eyes told her sister that she was going to accompany her that morning to see if she took care of the goat and fed her well; but Two-Eyes saw through her design, and drove the goat again to the best feeding-place.

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**Who acts:** Three Eyes, Eye, Two Eyes, goat · **What happens:** tell, go, accompany, see, take, feed · **To what, where:** sister, Eye, care, design, goat, best feeding place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Three Eyes, Eye, Two Eyes, goat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg11027:25:35
# text = So Three-Eyes told her sister that she was going to accompany her that morning to see if she took care of the goat and fed her well; but Two-Eyes saw through her design, and drove the goat again to the best feeding-place.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
47	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	50	amod	_	_
48	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Three Eyes |  | Eye's sister |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | Eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **accompany** | to-infinitive | Eye *not said here* | Eye |  |  | morning |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Eye | care of the goat |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 6 | **feed** | past | Eye *not said here* |  | Eye |  |  | well *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 7 | **see** | past | Two Eyes |  |  | Eye's design |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **drive** | past | Three Eyes *not said here* | the goat |  | the best feeding place | again |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goat=Theme to place=Trajectory |
| 9 | **care** |  | the goat |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 10 | **design** |  | Eye |  |  |  |  |  | nom design «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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