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title: The first and second times her sisters did not notice this, but when… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The first and second times her sisters did not notice this, but when it happened continually, they remarked it and said, ‘Something is the matter with Little Two-eyes, for she always leaves her food now, and she used to gobble up all that was given her. Who acts: it, sisters, Something, eye. A sente
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 29

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The first and second times her sisters did not notice this, but when it happened continually, they remarked it and said, ‘Something is the matter with Little Two-eyes, for she always leaves her food now, and she used to gobble up all that was given her.

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**Who acts:** it, sisters, Something, eye · **What happens:** not notice, happen, remark, say, be, leave · **To what, where:** this, food, matter, that, eye · **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 (it, sisters, Something, 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:pg7277:40:29
# text = The first and second times her sisters did not notice this, but when it happened continually, they remarked it and said, ‘Something is the matter with Little Two-eyes, for she always leaves her food now, and she used to gobble up all that was given her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	conj	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	notice	notice	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
17	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	39	advmod	_	_
39	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	gobble	gobble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	up	up	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
50	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	53	det:predet	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	advcl	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support |  | this |  |  | time |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | sisters *= sister* | food |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sisters *= sister* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | Something | the matter |  |  |  | with Little Two eyes | tree rules |
| 6 | **leave** | present | eye | eye's food |  |  | now | always *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 7 | **use** | past | eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **gobble up** | to-infinitive | eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **give** | past · passive |  | that | eye |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme |

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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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