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title: Of course Little Three-eyes shut that eye also out of cunning, to lo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course Little Three-eyes shut that eye also out of cunning, to look as if she were asleep, but it was blinking and could see everything quite well. Who acts: eye, cunning. 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 60

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Of course Little Three-eyes shut that eye also out of cunning, to look as if she were asleep, but it was blinking and could see everything quite well.

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**Who acts:** eye, cunning · **What happens:** look, be, blink, see · **To what, where:** everything

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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 (eye, cunning), 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:pg7277:40:60
# text = Of course Little Three-eyes shut that eye also out of cunning, to look as if she were asleep, but it was blinking and could see everything quite well.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
4	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	det	_	_
9	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	cunning	cunning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	blinking	blink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	29	obj	_	_
31	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | eye |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **blink** | past · progressive | cunning |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | could | cunning *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |

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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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