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title: But the third time he said, ‘I see a mighty army in the distance, an… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the third time he said, ‘I see a mighty army in the distance, and one of the warriors has the biggest lance you ever saw!’ Who acts: fox, I, one, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 36

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But the third time he said, ‘I see a mighty army in the distance, and one of the warriors has the biggest lance you ever saw!’

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**Who acts:** fox, I, one, you · **What happens:** say, see, have · **To what, where:** mighty army, biggest lance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, I, one, you), 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:pg7277:53:36
# text = But the third time he said, ‘I see a mighty army in the distance, and one of the warriors has the biggest lance you ever saw!’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fox |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** | present | I | a mighty army |  |  |  | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | present | one of the warriors | the biggest lance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lance=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | past | you | the biggest lance *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lance=Stimulus |

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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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