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title: Then Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes answered that the tree bel… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes answered that the tree belonged to them, and that they would certainly break him off a twig. Who acts: Little One eye, tree, sisters. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, with its depend
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 101

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Then Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes answered that the tree belonged to them, and that they would certainly break him off a twig.

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**Who acts:** Little One eye, tree, sisters · **What happens:** answer, belong, break off · **To what, where:** sisters, knight · **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 (Little One eye, tree, sisters), 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:pg7277:40:101
# text = Then Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes answered that the tree belonged to them, and that they would certainly break him off a twig.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Little One eye and Little Three eyes |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** | past | the tree |  | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break off** | would | sisters *= sister* | knight |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Patient twig=Result |

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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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