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title: There was once a woman who had three daughters, of whom the eldest w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was once a woman who had three daughters, of whom the eldest was called Little One-eye, because she had only one eye in the middle of her forehead; and the second, Little Two-eyes, because she had two eyes like other people; and the youngest, Little Three-eyes, because she had three eyes, and 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 1

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There was once a woman who had three daughters, of whom the eldest was called Little One-eye, because she had only one eye in the middle of her forehead; and the second, Little Two-eyes, because she had two eyes like other people; and the youngest, Little Three-eyes, because she had three eyes, and \_her\_ third eye was also in the middle of her forehead.

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**Who acts:** woman, third eye · **What happens:** be, have, call, \_ · **To what, where:** second Little Two eyes, three daughters, eldest, one eye, middle, two eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little 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 (woman, third 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:pg7277:40:1
# text = There was once a woman who had three daughters, of whom the eldest was called Little One-eye, because she had only one eye in the middle of her forehead; and the second, Little Two-eyes, because she had two eyes like other people; and the youngest, Little Three-eyes, because she had three eyes, and _her_ third eye was also in the middle of her forehead.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	advcl	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
37	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
40	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
47	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	60	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
57	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
62	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
63	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
65	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	66	nummod	_	_
66	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	_	_	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	78	punct	_	_
72	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	73	amod	_	_
73	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	nsubj	_	_
74	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	78	cop	_	_
75	also	also	ADV	RB	_	78	advmod	_	_
76	in	in	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
77	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
78	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obl	_	_
79	of	of	ADP	IN	_	81	case	_	_
80	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	81	nmod:poss	_	_
81	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	64	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a woman | the second Little Two eyes |  | there |  | youngest Three eyes *obl*; once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | a woman | three daughters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  | the eldest |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | past | woman | one eye |  | the middle of woman's forehead |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | woman | two eyes |  |  |  | like other people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | past | woman | three eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 7 | **\_** | past | woman *not said here* | woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past | third eye |  |  | the middle |  | of woman's forehead | tree rules |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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