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title: But Little Two-eyes thought, ‘I must try at once if what she has tol… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Little Two-eyes thought, ‘I must try at once if what she has told me is true, for I am more hungry than ever’; and she said, Who acts: I, woman, me. 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 pragm
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 19

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But Little Two-eyes thought, ‘I must try at once if what she has told me is true, for I am more hungry than ever’; and she said,

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**Who acts:** I, woman, me · **What happens:** think, try, tell, be, say · **To what, where:** Little · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, woman, me), 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:pg7277:40:19
# text = But Little Two-eyes thought, ‘I must try at once if what she has told me is true, for I am more hungry than ever’; and she said,
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
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	2	conj	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	obl	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | participle |  | Little and Two eyes |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | must | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | present | me |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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