--- title: Though Master Peter had no great wealth to leave behind him, still i… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Though Master Peter had no great wealth to leave behind him, still it was sad to him to be childless; and he would bemoan himself to his friends, when he laid one baby after another in the grave, saying: “The lightning has been among the cherry-blossoms again, so there will be no fruit to grow ripe. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/) / 25 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 25 Though Master Peter had no great wealth to leave behind him, still it was sad to him to be childless; and he would bemoan himself to his friends, when he laid one baby after another in the grave, saying: “The lightning has been among the cherry-blossoms again, so there will be no fruit to grow ripe.” **Who acts:** Master, great wealth, wealth, lightning, saying · **What happens:** have, leave, be, bemoan, lay, say · **To what, where:** great wealth, Master, one baby, grave, fruit · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, great wealth, wealth, lightning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:16:25 # text = Though Master Peter had no great wealth to leave behind him, still it was sad to him to be childless; and he would bemoan himself to his friends, when he laid one baby after another in the grave, saying: “The lightning has been among the cherry-blossoms again, so there will be no fruit to grow ripe.” 1 Though though SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 Master Master PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 10 behind behind ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 cop _ _ 21 childless childless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 bemoan bemoan VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 27 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 after after ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 34 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 62 csubj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 : : PUNCT : _ 54 punct _ _ 45 “ " PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 48 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 49 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 54 cop _ _ 50 among among ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 52 cherry cherry NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 blossoms blossom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 55 again again ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 57 so so ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 58 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 60 expl _ _ 59 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 60 aux _ _ 60 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 62 cop _ _ 61 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 62 det _ _ 62 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ _ 63 to to PART TO _ 64 mark _ _ 64 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 acl _ _ 65 ripe ripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ” " PUNCT '' _ 62 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Master | no great wealth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | no great wealth *not said here* | | | | | behind Master | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location | | 3 | **is** | past | wealth | | Master | | still | sad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | wealth *not said here* | | | | | childless *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **bemoan** | would | Master | Master | | | | to Master's friends | tree rules | | 6 | **lay** | past | Master | one baby | | the grave | after another | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in grave=Destination | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | again | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the lightning | | | | | among the cherry blossoms | tree rules | | 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | saying | no fruit | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **grow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Master *not said here* | | | | | ripe *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/26/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/16/)