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title: I shall never grow rich by what I earn as a scullion, even though I… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall never grow rich by what I earn as a scullion, even though I am paid as much in a month as I should get elsewhere in a year.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 48

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I shall never grow rich by what I earn as a scullion, even though I am paid as much in a month as I should get elsewhere in a year.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not grow, earn, pay, get · **To what, where:** I

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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 (I), 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:pg2435:11:48
# text = I shall never grow rich by what I earn as a scullion, even though I am paid as much in a month as I should get elsewhere in a year.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	scullion	scullion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
28	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **earn** | present | I |  |  |  |  | as a scullion | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pay** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient much=Asset |
| 4 | **get** | should | I |  |  |  | year | elsewhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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