--- title: Then she disappeared, and Little Two-eyes went home, and said to her… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then she disappeared, and Little Two-eyes went home, and said to her sisters, ‘Dear sisters, do give me something of my goat; I ask nothing better than its heart.’ Who acts: woman, Little Two eyes, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/83/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and L…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/) / 83 # The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 83 Then she disappeared, and Little Two-eyes went home, and said to her sisters, ‘Dear sisters, do give me something of my goat; I ask nothing better than its heart.’ **Who acts:** woman, Little Two eyes, I · **What happens:** disappear, go, say, give, ask · **To what, where:** sisters, something, me, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (woman, Little Two eyes, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:40:83 # text = Then she disappeared, and Little Two-eyes went home, and said to her sisters, ‘Dear sisters, do give me something of my goat; I ask nothing better than its heart.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 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 10 nsubj _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 home home ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 goat goat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 33 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 32 obj _ _ 34 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 xcomp _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **disappear** | past | woman | | | | then | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | Little Two eyes | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | woman's sisters and Dear sisters | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient | | 4 | **give** | present · do-support | | something | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | I | nothing | | | | good *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/84/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/)