--- title: So Little Three-eyes went to Little Two-eyes and said, ‘I will go wi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So Little Three-eyes went to Little Two-eyes and said, ‘I will go with you and see if you take good care of the goat, and if you drive him properly to get grass.’ Who acts: Three eyes, I, you, goat. 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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 (Three eyes, I, you, goat), 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:pg7277:40:48 # text = So Little Three-eyes went to Little Two-eyes and said, ‘I will go with you and see if you take good care of the goat, and if you drive him properly to get grass.’ 1 So so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 amod _ _ 3 Three three 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 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 drive drive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 properly properly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 40 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Three eyes | | | Little Two eyes | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to eye=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Three eyes *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** | future | I | | | | | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | | 4 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | good care of the goat | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 6 | **drive** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | bleat | | | | properly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 7 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | grass | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grass=Stimulus | | 8 | **care** | | the goat | | | | | | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/49/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/)