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title: Three-Eyes, however, cunningly shut it too, and feigned to be asleep… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Three-Eyes, however, cunningly shut it too, and feigned to be asleep, while she was really watching; and soon Two-Eyes, thinking all safe, repeated the words: Who acts: Eye, Two Eyes. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, with its dependency t
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 46

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Three-Eyes, however, cunningly shut it too, and feigned to be asleep, while she was really watching; and soon Two-Eyes, thinking all safe, repeated the words:

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**Who acts:** Eye, Two Eyes · **What happens:** feign, be, watch, think, repeat · **To what, where:** all, words

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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 (Eye, Two Eyes), 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:pg11027:25:46
# text = Three-Eyes, however, cunningly shut it too, and feigned to be asleep, while she was really watching; and soon Two-Eyes, thinking all safe, repeated the words:
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	cunningly	cunningly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	feigned	feign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	really	really	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
26	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	obj	_	_
32	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	parataxis	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feign** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | past · progressive | Eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Two Eyes | all |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot all=Theme |
| 5 | **repeat** | participle |  | the words |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |

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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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