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title: He instantly unsheathed his sword and cut his way through with such… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He instantly unsheathed his sword and cut his way through with such vigour that he hardly received a scratch. Who acts: Kinglet. 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 48

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He instantly unsheathed his sword and cut his way through with such vigour that he hardly received a scratch.

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**Who acts:** Kinglet · **What happens:** unsheathe, cut, receive · **To what, where:** sword, way, such vigour, scratch

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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 (Kinglet), 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:pg7277:22:48
# text = He instantly unsheathed his sword and cut his way through with such vigour that he hardly received a scratch.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	unsheathed	unsheathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|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	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	vigour	vigour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	scratch	scratch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unsheathe** | past | Kinglet | Kinglet's sword |  |  |  | instantly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cut** | past | Kinglet *not said here* | Kinglet's way |  | such vigour |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 3 | **receive** | past | Kinglet | a scratch |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scratch=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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