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title: There he sat, dreamily gazing at his bouquet till he ended by going… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There he sat, dreamily gazing at his bouquet till he ended by going fast asleep. Who acts: bird. 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 80

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There he sat, dreamily gazing at his bouquet till he ended by going fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** sit, gaze, end, go

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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 (bird), 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:pg7277:22:80
# text = There he sat, dreamily gazing at his bouquet till he ended by going fast asleep.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	dreamily	dreamily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | bird |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at bird's bouquet; dreamily *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bouquet=Theme |
| 3 | **end** | past | bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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