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title: Then Little Two-eyes looked at then and recognised both her sisters,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Little Two-eyes looked at then and recognised both her sisters, Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes, who had become so poor that they came to beg bread at her door. Who acts: Little Two eyes, Little Three eyes, sisters. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Littl
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 120

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Then Little Two-eyes looked at then and recognised both her sisters, Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes, who had become so poor that they came to beg bread at her door.

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**Who acts:** Little Two eyes, Little Three eyes, sisters · **What happens:** look, recognise, become, come, beg · **To what, where:** sisters, bread, door

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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, Little Three eyes, 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:pg7277:40:120
# text = Then Little Two-eyes looked at then and recognised both her sisters, Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes, who had become so poor that they came to beg bread at her door.
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	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc:preconj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Little Two eyes |  |  |  | then |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at then=Theme |
| 2 | **recognise** | past | Little Two eyes *not said here* | eye's sisters |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus |
| 3 | **become** | past · perfect | Little Three eyes |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | sisters *= sister* *not said here* | bread |  | eye's door |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient |

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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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