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title: “If I were only a rich man, and had no need to work,” replied the bo… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “If I were only a rich man, and had no need to work,” replied the boy, “I should not follow any. Who acts: boy, rich man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 85

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“If I were only a rich man, and had no need to work,” replied the boy, “I should not follow any.

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**Who acts:** boy, rich man · **What happens:** be, have, work, reply, not follow · **To what, where:** rich man, need, any · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, rich man), 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:pg2435:10:85
# text = “If I were only a rich man, and had no need to work,” replied the boy, “I should not follow any.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
18	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | the boy *= boy* | a rich man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | a rich man *not said here* | no need |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient |
| 3 | **work** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a rich man *not said here* | no need *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **follow** *in a quote* | should | the boy *= boy* | any |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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