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title: But when she looked up once in her grief there stood a woman beside… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when she looked up once in her grief there stood a woman beside her who asked, ‘Little Two-eyes, what are you crying for?’ Who acts: eye, you. 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 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 7

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But when she looked up once in her grief there stood a woman beside her who asked, ‘Little Two-eyes, what are you crying for?’

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**Who acts:** eye, you · **What happens:** look up, stand, ask, cry · **To what, where:** woman, Little Two eyes

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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, you), 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:pg7277:40:7
# text = But when she looked up once in her grief there stood a woman beside her who asked, ‘Little Two-eyes, what are you crying for?’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	obj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	acl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | past | eye |  |  |  |  | in eye's grief; once *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in grief=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | a woman |  | there |  | Little Two eyes *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present · progressive | you | Little Two eyes |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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