--- title: So they went home, and Little Two-eyes again left her little dish un… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So they went home, and Little Two-eyes again left her little dish untouched, and Little One-eye could not tell her mother why she would not eat, and said as an excuse, ‘I was so sleepy out-of-doors.’ Who acts: brooks, Little Two eyes, Little One eye, eye. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brooks, Little Two eyes, Little One eye, eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:40:46 # text = So they went home, and Little Two-eyes again left her little dish untouched, and Little One-eye could not tell her mother why she would not eat, and said as an excuse, ‘I was so sleepy out-of-doors.’ 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 7 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 untouched untouched ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 excuse excuse NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 parataxis _ _ 45 out out ADP IN _ 49 case _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | brooks *= brook* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | past | Little Two eyes | eye's little dish | | | again | untouched *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme | | 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | could | Little One eye | | eye's mother | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **eat** | would | eye | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | brooks *= brook* *not said here* | | | | | as a excuse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | I | | | doors | | sleepy *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/47/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/)