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title: But as he was still hungry, and the mischief was done, he climbed bo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as he was still hungry, and the mischief was done, he climbed boldly up another tree, and plucked two plums of a lovely green colour. Who acts: figure. 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 255

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But as he was still hungry, and the mischief was done, he climbed boldly up another tree, and plucked two plums of a lovely green colour.

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**Who acts:** figure · **What happens:** be, do, climb, pluck · **To what, where:** mischief, tree, two plums

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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 (figure), 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:pg7277:22:255
# text = But as he was still hungry, and the mischief was done, he climbed boldly up another tree, and plucked two plums of a lovely green colour.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | figure |  |  |  | still | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past · passive |  | the mischief |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **climb** | past | figure |  |  | another tree |  | boldly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up tree=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pluck** | past | figure *not said here* | two plums of a lovely green colour |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=Patient |

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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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