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title: When Little Two-eyes saw this, she went out full of grief, and sat d… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Little Two-eyes saw this, she went out full of grief, and sat down in the meadow and wept bitter tears. Who acts: Little Two 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 eve
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 78

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When Little Two-eyes saw this, she went out full of grief, and sat down in the meadow and wept bitter tears.

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**Who acts:** Little Two eyes, eye · **What happens:** see, go out, sit down, weep · **To what, where:** this, meadow, bitter tears

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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, eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:2782`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:40:78
# text = When Little Two-eyes saw this, she went out full of grief, and sat down in the meadow and wept bitter tears.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	Little	Little	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	Two	Two	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	eyes	eye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Little Two eyes | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go out** | past | eye |  |  |  |  | full, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | eye *not said here* |  |  | the meadow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location |
| 4 | **weep** | past | eye *not said here* | bitter tears |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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