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title: She left you this bouquet, and a message to say that she would pass… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She left you this bouquet, and a message to say that she would pass this way to-morrow morning at eight o’clock.’ Who acts: Princess. 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 75

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She left you this bouquet, and a message to say that she would pass this way to-morrow morning at eight o’clock.’

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** leave, say, pass · **To what, where:** bouquet, you, way, eight o’clock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Princess), 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:pg7277:22:75
# text = She left you this bouquet, and a message to say that she would pass this way to-morrow morning at eight o’clock.’
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Princess | this bouquet | you |  |  | a message *obl* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme bouquet=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pass** | would | Princess | this way |  | eight o’clock | morning |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent way=Theme at o'clock=Destination |

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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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