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title: But Little Two-eyes climbed up, and the golden apples did not jump a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Little Two-eyes climbed up, and the golden apples did not jump away from her, but behaved quite properly, so that she could pluck them off, one after the other, and brought a whole apron-full down with her. Who acts: Little Two eyes, golden apples, eye. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by An
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 95

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But Little Two-eyes climbed up, and the golden apples did not jump away from her, but behaved quite properly, so that she could pluck them off, one after the other, and brought a whole apron-full down with her.

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**Who acts:** Little Two eyes, golden apples, eye · **What happens:** climb up, not jump away, behave, pluck off, bring · **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 Two eyes, golden apples, eye), 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:pg7277:40:95
# text = But Little Two-eyes climbed up, and the golden apples did not jump away from her, but behaved quite properly, so that she could pluck them off, one after the other, and brought a whole apron-full down with her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	behaved	behave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obl	_	_
34	after	after	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
41	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	nsubj	_	_
42	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	ccomp	_	_
45	down	down	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | participle | Little Two eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **jump away** | past · do-support | the golden apples |  |  |  |  | from eye; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from she=Trajectory |
| 3 | **behave** | past |  |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pluck off** | could | eye | apples *= apple* |  |  |  | one after the other *obl* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **bring** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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