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title: The little soldier was enchanted, though greatly surprised, and came… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The little soldier was enchanted, though greatly surprised, and came to the conclusion that it was no good to despair too quickly. Who acts: it. 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 257

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The little soldier was enchanted, though greatly surprised, and came to the conclusion that it was no good to despair too quickly.

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**Who acts:** it · **What happens:** enchant, come, be, despair · **To what, where:** little soldier, conclusion

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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 (it), 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:pg7277:22:257
# text = The little soldier was enchanted, though greatly surprised, and came to the conclusion that it was no good to despair too quickly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	though	though	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	despair	despair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	csubj	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | past · passive |  | the little soldier |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the conclusion |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **despair** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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