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title: Then Little Two-eyes said the shortest grace she knew, and set to wo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Little Two-eyes said the shortest grace she knew, and set to work and made a good dinner. Who acts: Little Two eyes, eye. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 22

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Then Little Two-eyes said the shortest grace she knew, and set to work and made a good dinner.

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**Who acts:** Little Two eyes, eye · **What happens:** say, know, set, make · **To what, where:** shortest grace, good dinner · **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 (Little Two eyes, 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:pg7277:40:22
# text = Then Little Two-eyes said the shortest grace she knew, and set to work and made a good dinner.
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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	shortest	short	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Little Two eyes | the shortest grace |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past | eye | the shortest grace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer grace=Stimulus |
| 3 | **set** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to work | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | a good dinner |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dinner=Product |

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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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