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title: He crossed the gallery in safety, but when he reached the room he sa… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He crossed the gallery in safety, but when he reached the room he saw by the light of the stars eight hands on a level with his face, which threatened to strike him. Who acts: soldier, face. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 35

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He crossed the gallery in safety, but when he reached the room he saw by the light of the stars eight hands on a level with his face, which threatened to strike him.

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**Who acts:** soldier, face · **What happens:** cross, reach, see, threaten, strike, light · **To what, where:** gallery, room, level, soldier, stars

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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 (soldier, face), 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:pg7277:22:35
# text = He crossed the gallery in safety, but when he reached the room he saw by the light of the stars eight hands on a level with his face, which threatened to strike him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | soldier | the gallery |  |  |  | in safety | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent gallery=Patient in safety=Topic |
| 2 | **reach** | past | soldier | the room |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | soldier |  |  | a level with soldier's face |  | by the light of the stars and eight hands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **threaten** | past | soldier's face |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **strike** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | soldier's face *not said here* | soldier |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
| 6 | **light** |  |  | the stars and eight hands |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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