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title: ‘Forward, forward, soldier bold! — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Forward, forward, soldier bold! Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 60

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‘Forward, forward, soldier bold!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** soldier · **To what, where:** bold

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg640:50:60
# text = ‘Forward, forward, soldier bold!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	soldier	soldier	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	bold	bold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soldier** | imperative | you *not said here* | bold |  |  |  | forward *property* | tree rules |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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