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title: Then he took the scarf, which had a strange kind of scent, and tied… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he took the scarf, which had a strange kind of scent, and tied it round his left arm, thinking all the while that the best way to keep awake was not to go to bed at all. Who acts: soldier, scarf, best way. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its depende
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 87

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Then he took the scarf, which had a strange kind of scent, and tied it round his left arm, thinking all the while that the best way to keep awake was not to go to bed at all.

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**Who acts:** soldier, scarf, best way · **What happens:** take, have, tie, think, keep, not be · **To what, where:** scarf, strange kind, all · **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 (soldier, scarf, best way), 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:pg7277:22:87
# text = Then he took the scarf, which had a strange kind of scent, and tied it round his left arm, thinking all the while that the best way to keep awake was not to go to bed at all.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:outer	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | soldier | the scarf |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarf=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | the scarf | a strange kind of scent |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
| 3 | **tie** | past | soldier *not said here* | scarf |  |  |  | round soldier's left arm | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | soldier *not said here* |  |  |  | while |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the best way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is** | past | the best way |  |  | all |  | to bed; go *property* | tree rules |

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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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