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title: The sisters called out, ‘You with your two eyes will no doubt succee… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sisters called out, ‘You with your two eyes will no doubt succeed!’ Who acts: sisters. 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 every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 94

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The sisters called out, ‘You with your two eyes will no doubt succeed!’

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**Who acts:** sisters · **What happens:** call out, succeed · **To what, where:** sisters

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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 (sisters), 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:pg7277:40:94
# text = The sisters called out, ‘You with your two eyes will no doubt succeed!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	succeed	succeed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the sisters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **succeed** | future | the sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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