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title: Little Three-eyes sat down; she was tired by the walk and the hot da… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Three-eyes sat down; she was tired by the walk and the hot day, and Little Two-eyes sang the same little song again: Who acts: Little Three eyes, eye, Little Two eyes. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, with its depende
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 50

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Little Three-eyes sat down; she was tired by the walk and the hot day, and Little Two-eyes sang the same little song again:

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**Who acts:** Little Three eyes, eye, Little Two eyes · **What happens:** sit down, be, sing · **To what, where:** same little song

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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 Three eyes, eye, Little Two eyes), 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:pg7277:40:50
# text = Little Three-eyes sat down; she was tired by the walk and the hot day, and Little Two-eyes sang the same little song again:
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | Little Three eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | eye |  |  |  |  | by the walk and the hot day; tired *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Little Two eyes | the same little song |  |  | again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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