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title: Enchanted with this discovery, he ordered supper, and as it was too… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Enchanted with this discovery, he ordered supper, and as it was too late to visit the King that night he went to bed. Who acts: John, supper. 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 125

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Enchanted with this discovery, he ordered supper, and as it was too late to visit the King that night he went to bed.

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**Who acts:** John, supper · **What happens:** enchant, order, be, visit, go · **To what, where:** supper, King, night

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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 (John, supper), 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:pg7277:22:125
# text = Enchanted with this discovery, he ordered supper, and as it was too late to visit the King that night he went to bed.
1	Enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | participle | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with this discovery | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **order** | past | John | supper |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | supper |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **visit** | to-infinitive | supper *not said here* | the King |  |  | night |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past | John | that night *not said here* |  |  |  | to bed | 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 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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