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title: He who wishes to become rich must use either his hands or his head,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He who wishes to become rich must use either his hands or his head, and be ready to toil night and day, or else—” Who acts: man, rich. 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 89

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He who wishes to become rich must use either his hands or his head, and be ready to toil night and day, or else—”

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**Who acts:** man, rich · **What happens:** wish, become, use, be, toil · **To what, where:** hands · **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 (man, rich), 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:pg2435:10:89
# text = He who wishes to become rich must use either his hands or his head, and be ready to toil night and day, or else—”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc:preconj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	toil	toil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	else	else	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | man |  |  |  |  | else *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **become** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | must | rich | man's hands or man's head |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **toil** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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