--- title: ‘Ah,’ answered Little Two-eyes, ‘I suffer hunger and thirst, want an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Ah,’ answered Little Two-eyes, ‘I suffer hunger and thirst, want and sorrow, from early morning till late in the evening; if you would take me with you, and free me from this, I should be happy!’ Who acts: 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 (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:pg7277:40:112 # text = ‘Ah,’ answered Little Two-eyes, ‘I suffer hunger and thirst, want and sorrow, from early morning till late in the evening; if you would take me with you, and free me from this, I should be happy!’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 suffer suffer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 thirst thirst VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 sorrow sorrow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 25 till till SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 35 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 advcl _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 46 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 cop _ _ 48 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ! ! PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | Little Two eyes | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality | | 2 | **suffer** | present | I | hunger | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus | | 3 | **thirst** | present | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **want** | present | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **sorrow** | present | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | | me | | | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | | 7 | **is** | should | I | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | 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 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/113/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/)