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title: From his youth up, Master Peter had hated trouble; when he had money… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From his youth up, Master Peter had hated trouble; when he had money he spent it freely, and fed all the hungry folk who asked him for bread. Who acts: Master, hungry folk. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 28

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From his youth up, Master Peter had hated trouble; when he had money he spent it freely, and fed all the hungry folk who asked him for bread.

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**Who acts:** Master, hungry folk · **What happens:** hate, have, spend, feed, ask · **To what, where:** trouble, youth, money, hungry folk, Master

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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, hungry folk), 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:pg2435:16:28
# text = From his youth up, Master Peter had hated trouble; when he had money he spent it freely, and fed all the hungry folk who asked him for bread.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **hate** | past · perfect | Master | trouble |  | Master's youth |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trouble=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Master | money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 3 | **spend** | past | Master | money |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
| 4 | **feed** | past | Master *not said here* | all hungry folk |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Recipient |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | all hungry folk |  | Master |  |  | for bread | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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