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title: Ay, hinny, an' it's much handier than a lot o' yer gold and silver a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ay, hinny, an' it's much handier than a lot o' yer gold and silver as 'd have kept me from sleeping o' nights thinking the neighbours were robbing me--an' it's a real good thing to have by you in a house, ye niver can tell what ye mightn't use it for, an' it'll sell--ay, for a real lot. Who acts: as
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 7

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Ay, hinny, an' it's much handier than a lot o' yer gold and silver as 'd have kept me from sleeping o' nights thinking the neighbours were robbing me--an' it's a real good thing to have by you in a house, ye niver can tell what ye mightn't use it for, an' it'll sell--ay, for a real lot.

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**Who acts:** astonishment, neighbours, hinny, ye · **What happens:** be, keep, sleep, think, rob, have · **To what, where:** me, real good thing, house, astonishment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astonishment, neighbours, hinny, ye), 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:pg14241:20:7
# text = Ay, hinny, an' it's much handier than a lot o' yer gold and silver as 'd have kept me from sleeping o' nights thinking the neighbours were robbing me--an' it's a real good thing to have by you in a house, ye niver can tell what ye mightn't use it for, an' it'll sell--ay, for a real lot.
1	Ay	ay	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	hinny	hinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	handier	handy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	yer	yer	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	29	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	robbing	rob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	ccomp	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	54	compound	_	_
54	niver	niver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
55	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
57	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	61	obj	_	_
58	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	61	nsubj	_	_
59	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	61	advmod	_	_
61	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	ccomp	_	_
62	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	obj	_	_
63	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
65	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	69	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	69	punct	_	_
67	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	69	aux	_	_
69	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	ay	ay	INTJ	UH	_	69	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
73	for	for	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
74	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
75	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	76	amod	_	_
76	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	56	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | astonishment |  |  |  |  | than a lot of yer's gold and silver; handy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | would · perfect | astonishment *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | gerund | astonishment *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | astonishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **rob** | past · progressive | the neighbours | me |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source |
| 6 | **is a** | present | astonishment | a real good thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | to-infinitive | hinny and a real good thing and ye niver *not said here* |  |  | a house |  | by you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | hinny and a real good thing and ye niver |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **not** **use** | might | ye | astonishment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **sell** | future | astonishment |  |  |  |  | for a real lot | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for lot=Asset |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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