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description: But the next morning the tree had flown, and their hopes with it; and when Little Two-eyes looked out of her window there it stood underneath, to her great delight. Who acts: Little Two eyes, tree, sisters, eye. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, an
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 117

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But the next morning the tree had flown, and their hopes with it; and when Little Two-eyes looked out of her window there it stood underneath, to her great delight.

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**Who acts:** Little Two eyes, tree, sisters, eye · **What happens:** fly, look out, stand, hope, delight · **To what, where:** tree, window

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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 Two eyes, tree, sisters, eye), 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:pg7277:40:117
# text = But the next morning the tree had flown, and their hopes with it; and when Little Two-eyes looked out of her window there it stood underneath, to her great delight.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	flown	fly	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
18	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past · perfect · passive |  | the tree |  |  | morning | sisters's hopes with harvest *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **look out** | past | Little Two eyes | eye's window |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | tree |  |  |  |  | to eye's great delight; underneath *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hope** |  | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  | with harvest | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
| 5 | **delight** |  | eye |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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