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title: When Little Two-eyes saw that Little One-eye was asleep and could fi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Little Two-eyes saw that Little One-eye was asleep and could find out nothing, she said, Who acts: Little Two eyes, One eye, 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 cla
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 38

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When Little Two-eyes saw that Little One-eye was asleep and could find out nothing, she said,

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**Who acts:** Little Two eyes, One eye, eye · **What happens:** see, be, find out, say · **To what, where:** nothing · **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, One eye, 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:pg7277:40:38
# text = When Little Two-eyes saw that Little One-eye was asleep and could find out nothing, she said,
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	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	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Little Two eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | One eye |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find out** | could | One eye *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | eye |  |  |  |  |  | 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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