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title: Then he walked bravely on for many days, having no food but the berr… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he walked bravely on for many days, having no food but the berries by the wayside, and was in great danger from wild beasts and savage men. Who acts: mischief. 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 264

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Then he walked bravely on for many days, having no food but the berries by the wayside, and was in great danger from wild beasts and savage men.

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**Who acts:** mischief · **What happens:** walk, have, be · **To what, where:** food, great danger

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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 (mischief), 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:pg7277:22:264
# text = Then he walked bravely on for many days, having no food but the berries by the wayside, and was in great danger from wild beasts and savage men.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | mischief |  |  |  | then; day | bravely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | mischief *not said here* | no food but the berries |  |  |  | by the wayside | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | great danger |  | from wild beasts and savage men | 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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