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title: The little soldier cursed his sleep, but tried to console himself by… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The little soldier cursed his sleep, but tried to console himself by looking at his bouquet, which was of immortelles. Who acts: little soldier, bouquet, soldier. 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 76

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The little soldier cursed his sleep, but tried to console himself by looking at his bouquet, which was of immortelles.

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**Who acts:** little soldier, bouquet, soldier · **What happens:** curse, try, look, be, sleep · **To what, where:** sleep, console

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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, bouquet, soldier), 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:pg7277:22:76
# text = The little soldier cursed his sleep, but tried to console himself by looking at his bouquet, which was of immortelles.
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	9	nsubj	_	_
4	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	11	nmod:unmarked	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	immortelles	immortelle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curse** | participle | the little soldier *not said here* | soldier's sleep |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | past | the little soldier | console  soldier |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the little soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at soldier's bouquet and immortelles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bouquet=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | soldier's bouquet and immortelles |  |  |  |  | of immortelles | tree rules |
| 5 | **sleep** |  | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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