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title: The little soldier entered the courtyard, and, peeping through a win… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The little soldier entered the courtyard, and, peeping through a window, saw a large fire blazing at the end of a low hall. Who acts: little soldier, large fire. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 10

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The little soldier entered the courtyard, and, peeping through a window, saw a large fire blazing at the end of a low hall.

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**Who acts:** little soldier, large fire · **What happens:** enter, peep, see, blaze · **To what, where:** courtyard, large fire, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little soldier, large fire), 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:pg7277:22:10
# text = The little soldier entered the courtyard, and, peeping through a window, saw a large fire blazing at the end of a low hall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	ccomp	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the little soldier | the courtyard |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Destination |
| 2 | **peep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | through a window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | the little soldier *not said here* | a large fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **blaze** | gerund | a large fire *not said here* |  |  |  | at the end of a low hall |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |

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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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