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title: And, turn his eyes which way he would, he could discover no bodies b… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And, turn his eyes which way he would, he could discover no bodies belonging to them. Who acts: you, soldier, bodies. 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 36

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And, turn his eyes which way he would, he could discover no bodies belonging to them.

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**Who acts:** you, soldier, bodies · **What happens:** turn, discover, belong · **To what, where:** eyes, bodies

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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 (you, soldier, bodies), 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:pg7277:22:36
# text = And, turn his eyes which way he would, he could discover no bodies belonging to them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | soldier's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent eye=Theme way=Result |
| 2 | **discover** | could | soldier | no bodies |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic |
| 3 | **belong** | gerund | no bodies *not said here* |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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