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title: So Little One-eye slid down, and Little Three-eyes climbed up; but s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Little One-eye slid down, and Little Three-eyes climbed up; but she was not any more successful; look round as she might, the golden apples bent themselves back. Who acts: Little One eye, Little Three eyes, eye, golden apples. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, L
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 91

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So Little One-eye slid down, and Little Three-eyes climbed up; but she was not any more successful; look round as she might, the golden apples bent themselves back.

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**Who acts:** Little One eye, Little Three eyes, eye, golden apples · **What happens:** slide down, climb up, not be, look round, bend back · **To what, where:** apples

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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 One eye, Little Three eyes, eye, golden apples), 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:pg7277:40:91
# text = So Little One-eye slid down, and Little Three-eyes climbed up; but she was not any more successful; look round as she might, the golden apples bent themselves back.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slid	slide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	any	any	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
26	round	round	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obj	_	_
36	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide down** | past | Little One eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **climb up** | past | Little Three eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | eye |  |  |  |  | successful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look round** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **bend back** | past | the golden apples | apples *= apple* |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent themselves=Material |

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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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