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title: Now Tiidu saw quite clearly that he could only hope to become rich b… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Tiidu saw quite clearly that he could only hope to become rich by means of his pipes, and set about thinking if there was nothing he could do to make the money flow in faster. Who acts: Tiidu, rich, nothing. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 14

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Now Tiidu saw quite clearly that he could only hope to become rich by means of his pipes, and set about thinking if there was nothing he could do to make the money flow in faster.

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**Who acts:** Tiidu, rich, nothing · **What happens:** see, hope, become, mean, set, think · **To what, where:** money flow, faster

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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 (Tiidu, rich, nothing), 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:pg2435:11:14
# text = Now Tiidu saw quite clearly that he could only hope to become rich by means of his pipes, and set about thinking if there was nothing he could do to make the money flow in faster.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	nsubj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Tiidu |  |  |  | now | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hope** | could | Tiidu |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **become** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | rich |  |  |  |  | of Tiidu's pipes | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **set** | infinitive | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **do** | could | Tiidu |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **make** | to-infinitive | Tiidu *not said here* | the money flow |  | faster |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flow=Product |

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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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