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title: And when Little Two-eyes thought that Little Three-eyes was sound as… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Little Two-eyes thought that Little Three-eyes was sound asleep, she said her rhyme, Who acts: Little Two eyes, Three eyes, eye. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 61

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And when Little Two-eyes thought that Little Three-eyes was sound asleep, she said her rhyme,

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**Who acts:** Little Two eyes, Three eyes, eye · **What happens:** think, be, say, rhyme · **To what, where:** rhyme · **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, Three eyes, eye), 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:pg7277:40:61
# text = And when Little Two-eyes thought that Little Three-eyes was sound asleep, she said her rhyme,
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	Two	two	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	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	sound	sound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Little Two eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Three eyes |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | eye | eye's rhyme |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic |
| 4 | **rhyme** |  | eye |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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