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title: When the handsome knight carried Little Two-eyes away with him, the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the handsome knight carried Little Two-eyes away with him, the two sisters envied her good luck at first. Who acts: handsome knight, two sisters. 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 pragmat
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 115

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When the handsome knight carried Little Two-eyes away with him, the two sisters envied her good luck at first.

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**Who acts:** handsome knight, two sisters · **What happens:** carry, envy · **To what, where:** Little Two eyes, eye

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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 (handsome knight, two 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:pg7277:40:115
# text = When the handsome knight carried Little Two-eyes away with him, the two sisters envied her good luck at first.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
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	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	envied	envy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | the handsome knight | Little Two eyes |  |  |  | with wedding; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **envy** | past | the two sisters | eye |  |  |  |  | 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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