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title: “Have you lost the eye, sister? have you lost the eye?” said the thi… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Have you lost the eye, sister? have you lost the eye?” said the third gray woman; “shall we _never_ find it again, and see old times coming back?” Who acts: you, third gray woman, we, old times. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 59

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“Have you lost the eye, sister? have you lost the eye?” said the third gray woman; “shall we \_never\_ find it again, and see old times coming back?”

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**Who acts:** you, third gray woman, we, old times · **What happens:** lose, have, say, not find, see, come back · **To what, where:** eye, ice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, third gray woman, we, old times), 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:pg503:27:59
# text = “Have you lost the eye, sister? have you lost the eye?” said the third gray woman; “shall we _never_ find it again, and see old times coming back?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
20	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | present | you | the eye and sister |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | you | the eye |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the third gray woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **find** *in a quote* | shall | we | ice |  |  | again |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **come back** *in a quote* | gerund | old times *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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