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title: Every now and then he stooped to smell the sweet perfume of the scar… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every now and then he stooped to smell the sweet perfume of the scarf round his arm; and gradually he smelt it so often that at last his head sank on to the horse’s neck, and he and his horse snored in company. Who acts: soldier, last head. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Li
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 89

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Every now and then he stooped to smell the sweet perfume of the scarf round his arm; and gradually he smelt it so often that at last his head sank on to the horse’s neck, and he and his horse snored in company.

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**Who acts:** soldier, last head · **What happens:** stoop, smell, smelt, sink, snore, perfume · **To what, where:** sweet perfume, perfume, soldier, company, scarf

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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, last head), 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:pg7277:22:89
# text = Every now and then he stooped to smell the sweet perfume of the scarf round his arm; and gradually he smelt it so often that at last his head sank on to the horse’s neck, and he and his horse snored in company.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	round	round	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	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	smelt	smelt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
44	snored	snore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | past | soldier |  |  |  | now; then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **smell** | to-infinitive | soldier *not said here* | the sweet perfume of the scarf round soldier's arm |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer perfume=Stimulus |
| 3 | **smelt** | past | soldier | perfume |  |  |  | gradually, often *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sink** | past | soldier's last head |  |  |  |  | to the horse's neck | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **snore** | participle · passive |  | soldier |  | company |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **perfume** |  |  | the scarf round soldier's arm |  |  |  |  | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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