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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 6

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Mannikin did wonders, and half-a-dozen times turned the retreating forces and beat back the enemy; and he afterwards collected troops enough to keep them in check until, the severe winter setting in, put an end to hostilities for a while.

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**Who acts:** Mannikin, half, severe winter · **What happens:** do, turn, retreat, beat back, collect, keep · **To what, where:** wonders, retreating forces, enemy, troops, check, end

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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, half, severe winter), 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:pg7277:17:6
# text = Mannikin did wonders, and half-a-dozen times turned the retreating forces and beat back the enemy; and he afterwards collected troops enough to keep them in check until, the severe winter setting in, put an end to hostilities for a while.
1	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	retreating	retreat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	obj	_	_
27	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
38	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	in	in	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
41	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
42	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	hostilities	hostility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mannikin | wonders |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonder=Eventuality |
| 2 | **turn** | past | half | the retreating forces |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent force=Theme |
| 3 | **retreat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **beat back** | infinitive | half *not said here* | the enemy |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location enemy=Theme |
| 5 | **collect** | past | Mannikin | troops |  |  |  | afterwards, enough *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Mannikin *not said here* | troops |  | check |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in check=Location |
| 7 | **set in** | gerund | the severe winter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **put** | infinitive | Mannikin *not said here* | a end |  |  | while; winter | to hostilities | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |

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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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