--- title: Because I have two eyes like other people, my sisters and my mother… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Because I have two eyes like other people, my sisters and my mother cannot bear me; they push me out of one corner into another, and give me nothing to eat except what they leave. Who acts: I, mother, sisters. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/9/) [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/) / 9 # The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 9 Because I have two eyes like other people, my sisters and my mother cannot bear me; they push me out of one corner into another, and give me nothing to eat except what they leave. **Who acts:** I, mother, sisters · **What happens:** have, not bear, push, give, eat, leave · **To what, where:** two eyes, me, one corner, nothing 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 (I, mother, sisters), 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:pg7277:40:9 # text = Because I have two eyes like other people, my sisters and my mother cannot bear me; they push me out of one corner into another, and give me nothing to eat except what they leave. 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 out out ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 31 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 except except ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 obl _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | I | two eyes and my sisters | | | | like other people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **not** **bear** | can | my mother | me | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | | 3 | **push** | present | sisters *= sister* | me | | one corner | | into another | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme out corner=Initial\_Location into another=Destination | | 4 | **give** | infinitive | sisters *= sister* *not said here* | nothing | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient nothing=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | sisters *= sister* *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **leave** | present | sisters *= sister* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/10/) - ↑ back to [Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/40/)