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title: Any other man in Tiidu’s place would have been contented and happy i… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Any other man in Tiidu’s place would have been contented and happy in this life; but his craving for riches gave him no rest, and only goaded him day by day to fresh exertions, so that even his own mother would not have known him for the lazy boy who was always lying asleep in one place or the other
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 13

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Any other man in Tiidu’s place would have been contented and happy in this life; but his craving for riches gave him no rest, and only goaded him day by day to fresh exertions, so that even his own mother would not have known him for the lazy boy who was always lying asleep in one place or the other.

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**Who acts:** craving, lazy boy, Tiidu · **What happens:** content, give, goad, not know, lie, crave · **To what, where:** other man, life, rest, Tiidu, own mother, one place

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (craving, lazy boy, Tiidu), 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:pg2435:11:13
# text = Any other man in Tiidu’s place would have been contented and happy in this life; but his craving for riches gave him no rest, and only goaded him day by day to fresh exertions, so that even his own mother would not have known him for the lazy boy who was always lying asleep in one place or the other.
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	craving	craving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	goaded	goad	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	exertions	exertion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
39	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	48	mark	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	even	even	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
47	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	aux	_	_
48	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
54	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	57	advmod	_	_
57	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	acl:relcl	_	_
58	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	xcomp	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	61	nummod	_	_
61	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
62	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **content** | would · perfect · passive |  | any other man in Tiidu's place |  | this life |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give** | past | Tiidu's craving for riches | no rest | Tiidu |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rest=Theme |
| 3 | **goad** | past | Tiidu's craving for riches *not said here* | Tiidu |  |  | day | to fresh exertions | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **know** | would · perfect · passive |  | Tiidu's own mother |  |  |  | for the lazy boy | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie** | past · progressive | the lazy boy |  |  | one place |  | always, asleep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 6 | **crave** |  | Tiidu |  |  |  |  | for riches | nom craving «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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