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title: Who felt foolish but John, when he awoke, twenty-four hours after, a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Who felt foolish but John, when he awoke, twenty-four hours after, and found himself without purse, without mantle, and without Princess? Who acts: John. 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 241

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Who felt foolish but John, when he awoke, twenty-four hours after, and found himself without purse, without mantle, and without Princess?

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** feel, awake, find · **To what, where:** John

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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), 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:pg7277:22:241
# text = Who felt foolish but John, when he awoke, twenty-four hours after, and found himself without purse, without mantle, and without Princess?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	after	after	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past |  |  |  |  |  | without Princess; foolish *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **awake** | past | John |  |  |  | hour |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | John *not said here* | John |  |  |  | without purse; without mantle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |

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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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