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title: When they reached home, Little Two-eyes did not eat again, and Littl… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached home, Little Two-eyes did not eat again, and Little Three-eyes said to the mother, ‘I know now why that proud thing eats nothing. Who acts: fields, Little Two eyes, Little Three eyes, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Littl
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 69

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When they reached home, Little Two-eyes did not eat again, and Little Three-eyes said to the mother, ‘I know now why that proud thing eats nothing.

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**Who acts:** fields, Little Two eyes, Little Three eyes, I, proud thing · **What happens:** reach, not eat, say, know, eat · **To what, where:** mother, nothing · **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 (fields, Little Two eyes, Little Three eyes, I), 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:pg7277:40:69
# text = When they reached home, Little Two-eyes did not eat again, and Little Three-eyes said to the mother, ‘I know now why that proud thing eats nothing.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
29	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | fields *= field* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | past · do-support | Little Two eyes |  |  |  | again |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Little Three eyes |  | the mother |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient |
| 4 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **eat** | present | that proud thing | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |

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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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