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title: The little soldier departed, and found himself in the presence of ei… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The little soldier departed, and found himself in the presence of eight goblins armed with hammers, and flames darting from their eyes. Who acts: little soldier, flames. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 54

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The little soldier departed, and found himself in the presence of eight goblins armed with hammers, and flames darting from their eyes.

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**Who acts:** little soldier, flames · **What happens:** depart, find, dart · **To what, where:** little soldier, soldier, presence, eyes

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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 (little soldier, flames), 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:pg7277:22:54
# text = The little soldier departed, and found himself in the presence of eight goblins armed with hammers, and flames darting from their eyes.
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	7	nsubj	_	_
4	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hammers	hammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
21	darting	dart	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** | participle |  | the little soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | the little soldier | soldier |  | the presence of eight goblins |  | flames *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 3 | **dart** | gerund | flames *not said here* |  |  | flames's eyes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory |

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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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