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title: He emptied the purse altogether and then shut it; when he opened it… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He emptied the purse altogether and then shut it; when he opened it the fifty crowns were still there! Who acts: soldier, fifty crowns. 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 142

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He emptied the purse altogether and then shut it; when he opened it the fifty crowns were still there!

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**Who acts:** soldier, fifty crowns · **What happens:** empty, shut, open, be · **To what, where:** purse

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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 (soldier, fifty crowns), 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:pg7277:22:142
# text = He emptied the purse altogether and then shut it; when he opened it the fifty crowns were still there!
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **empty** | past | soldier | the purse |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent purse=Source |
| 2 | **shut** | infinitive | soldier *not said here* | purse |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **open** | past | soldier | purse |  |  |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme crown=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | the fifty crowns *not said here* |  |  |  | still | there *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 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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