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title: Mannikin was one of the first to volunteer, but he only asked to go… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mannikin was one of the first to volunteer, but he only asked to go as aide-de-camp to the Commander-in chief, who was a gallant soldier and celebrated for his victories. Who acts: Mannikin, chief. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 2

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Mannikin was one of the first to volunteer, but he only asked to go as aide-de-camp to the Commander-in chief, who was a gallant soldier and celebrated for his victories.

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**Who acts:** Mannikin, chief · **What happens:** be, volunteer, ask, go, celebrate · **To what, where:** one, chief, gallant soldier

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mannikin, chief), 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:pg7277:17:2
# text = Mannikin was one of the first to volunteer, but he only asked to go as aide-de-camp to the Commander-in chief, who was a gallant soldier and celebrated for his victories.
1	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	appos	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	volunteer	volunteer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	aide	aide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	Commander	Commander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	victories	victory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mannikin | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **volunteer** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Mannikin |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Mannikin *not said here* |  |  | the chief |  | as aide camp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to chief=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the chief | a gallant soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **celebrate** | past | Mannikin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Commander's victories | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for victory=Attribute |

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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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