--- title: By and by Three-Eyes closed two of her eyes, and went to sleep with… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: By and by Three-Eyes closed two of her eyes, and went to sleep with them; but the third eye, which was not spoken to, kept open. Who acts: Three Eyes. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/45/) [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/) / 45 # Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 45 By and by Three-Eyes closed two of her eyes, and went to sleep with them; but the third eye, which was not spoken to, kept open. **Who acts:** Three Eyes · **What happens:** close, go, sleep, not speak, keep · **To what, where:** two, third 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 (Three Eyes), 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:pg11027:25:45 # text = By and by Three-Eyes closed two of her eyes, and went to sleep with them; but the third eye, which was not spoken to, kept open. 1 By by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 amod _ _ 23 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ _ 32 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | participle | Three Eyes *not said here* | two of Eye's eyes | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient | | 2 | **go** | past | Three Eyes *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Three Eyes *not said here* | | | | | with walk | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive | | the third eye | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | participle · passive | | the third eye | | | | open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/46/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/25/)