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title: My right eye laughs when I look at my three sons, and see how strong… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My right eye laughs when I look at my three sons, and see how strong and handsome you all are, and the other eye weeps because I fear that after I die you will not be able to keep the empire together, and to protect it from its enemies. Who acts: right eye, I, you, other eye. A sentence of «The Viol
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 33

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My right eye laughs when I look at my three sons, and see how strong and handsome you all are, and the other eye weeps because I fear that after I die you will not be able to keep the empire together, and to protect it from its enemies.

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**Who acts:** right eye, I, you, other eye · **What happens:** laugh, look, see, be, weep, fear · **To what, where:** empire, eye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (right eye, I, you, other eye), 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:pg641:19:33
# text = My right eye laughs when I look at my three sons, and see how strong and handsome you all are, and the other eye weeps because I fear that after I die you will not be able to keep the empire together, and to protect it from its enemies.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	weeps	weep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
39	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	ccomp	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	together	together	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | present | My right eye |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | I |  |  |  |  | at my three sons | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at son=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **weep** | present | the other eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fear** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **die** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 9 | **not** **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **keep** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the empire |  |  |  | together *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Theme |
| 11 | **protect** | to-infinitive | the other eye *not said here* | eye |  |  |  | from eye's enemies | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from enemy=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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