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title: As he had no father or mother to welcome him home, he did not hurry… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he had no father or mother to welcome him home, he did not hurry himself, but went quietly along, his knapsack on his back and his sword by his side, when suddenly one evening he was seized with a wish to light his pipe. Who acts: John. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lit
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 6

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As he had no father or mother to welcome him home, he did not hurry himself, but went quietly along, his knapsack on his back and his sword by his side, when suddenly one evening he was seized with a wish to light his pipe.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** have, welcome, not hurry, go, seize, light · **To what, where:** father, John, one evening, pipe

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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 (John), 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:pg7277:22:6
# text = As he had no father or mother to welcome him home, he did not hurry himself, but went quietly along, his knapsack on his back and his sword by his side, when suddenly one evening he was seized with a wish to light his pipe.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	along	along	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
37	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | John | no father or mother |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient |
| 2 | **welcome** | to-infinitive | John *not said here* | John |  |  |  | home *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hurry** | past · do-support | John | John |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | along, quietly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seize** | past · passive |  | one evening |  |  |  | with a wish | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **light** | to-infinitive |  | John's pipe |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product |

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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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