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title: They would say to her, ‘You with your two eyes are no better than co… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They would say to her, ‘You with your two eyes are no better than common folk; you don’t belong to us.’ Who acts: sisters, You. 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 3

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They would say to her, ‘You with your two eyes are no better than common folk; you don’t belong to us.’

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**Who acts:** sisters, You · **What happens:** say, not be, not belong · **To what, where:** eye, us · **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 (sisters, You), 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:pg7277:40:3
# text = They would say to her, ‘You with your two eyes are no better than common folk; you don’t belong to us.’
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | sisters *= sister* |  | eye |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | You |  |  |  |  | than common folk; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **belong** | present · do-support | you |  | us |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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