--- title: Then he said, ‘Little Two-eyes, what shall I give you for this?’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he said, ‘Little Two-eyes, what shall I give you for this?’ Who acts: knight, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/111/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and L…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/) / 111 # The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 111 Then he said, ‘Little Two-eyes, what shall I give you for this?’ **Who acts:** knight, I · **What happens:** say, give · **To what, where:** Little Two eyes, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (knight, I), 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:pg7277:40:111 # text = Then he said, ‘Little Two-eyes, what shall I give you for this?’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | knight | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | shall | I | Little Two eyes | you | | | for this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Theme for this=Asset | 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 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/110/) - next →: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/112/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/)