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title: ‘Eight hundred and fifty, nine hundred, nine hundred and fifty--’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Eight hundred and fifty, nine hundred, nine hundred and fifty--’ 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 190

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‘Eight hundred and fifty, nine hundred, nine hundred and fifty--’

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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: 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:pg7277:22:190
# text = ‘Eight hundred and fifty, nine hundred, nine hundred and fifty--’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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