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title: He laid his head on his left arm, round which the scarf was tied, an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He laid his head on his left arm, round which the scarf was tied, and was soon fast asleep. Who acts: Kinglet. 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 237

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He laid his head on his left arm, round which the scarf was tied, and was soon fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** Kinglet · **What happens:** lay, round, tie, be · **To what, where:** head, left arm

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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 (Kinglet), 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:pg7277:22:237
# text = He laid his head on his left arm, round which the scarf was tied, and was soon fast asleep.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	round	round	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | Kinglet | Kinglet's head |  | Kinglet's left arm |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on arm=Destination |
| 2 | **round** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tie** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast, soon *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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