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title: But because Little Two-eyes did not look any different from other ch… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But because Little Two-eyes did not look any different from other children, her sisters and mother could not bear her. Who acts: Little Two eyes, 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 pra
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 2

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But because Little Two-eyes did not look any different from other children, her sisters and mother could not bear her.

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**Who acts:** Little Two eyes, sisters · **What happens:** not look, not bear · **To what, where:** 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 (Little Two 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:pg7277:40:2
# text = But because Little Two-eyes did not look any different from other children, her sisters and mother could not bear her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
3	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **look** | past · do-support | Little Two eyes |  |  |  |  | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **bear** | could | eye's sisters and mother | eye |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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