--- title: Then Little Two-eyes came out from under the cask quite happily, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then Little Two-eyes came out from under the cask quite happily, and the knight was astonished at her great beauty, and said, ‘Little Two-eyes, I am sure you can break me off a twig from the tree.’ Who acts: Little Two eyes, knight, I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Two eyes, knight, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:40:108 # text = Then Little Two-eyes came out from under the cask quite happily, and the knight was astonished at her great beauty, and said, ‘Little Two-eyes, I am sure you can break me off a twig from the tree.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 under under ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cask cask NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 quite quite ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 happily happily ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 30 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 off off ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 twig twig NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past | Little Two eyes | | | the cask | then | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | the knight | | | eye's great beauty | | astonished *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Little Two eyes *not said here* | Little Two eyes | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **break off** | can | you | me | | the tree | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Patient twig=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/109/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/)