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title: Little Two-eyes then woke Little One-eye and said, ‘Little One-eye,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Two-eyes then woke Little One-eye and said, ‘Little One-eye, you meant to watch, and, instead, you went to sleep; in the meantime the goat might have run far and wide. Who acts: Little Two eyes, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Lit
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 44

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Little Two-eyes then woke Little One-eye and said, ‘Little One-eye, you meant to watch, and, instead, you went to sleep; in the meantime the goat might have run far and wide.

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**Who acts:** Little Two eyes, you · **What happens:** wake, say, mean, watch, go, sleep · **To what, where:** Little, goat, meantime · **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, 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:pg7277:40:44
# text = Little Two-eyes then woke Little One-eye and said, ‘Little One-eye, you meant to watch, and, instead, you went to sleep; in the meantime the goat might have run far and wide.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
8	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
16	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux	_	_
41	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
42	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | past | Little Two eyes | Little |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Little Two eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **watch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past | you |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **run** | might · perfect · passive |  | the goat |  | the meantime |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in meantime=Trajectory |

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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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