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title: Master Peter had no control at all of the money affairs of the house… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Master Peter had no control at all of the money affairs of the household, so the contents of this secret hoard were quite unknown to him, and this seemed to be a good opportunity for finding out what they were. Who acts: Master Peter, contents, this, good opportunity. A sentence of «The Crimson Fair
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 63

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Master Peter had no control at all of the money affairs of the household, so the contents of this secret hoard were quite unknown to him, and this seemed to be a good opportunity for finding out what they were.

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**Who acts:** Master Peter, contents, this, good opportunity · **What happens:** have, be, seem, find out · **To what, where:** control, all, Peter, good opportunity

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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 Peter, contents, this, good opportunity), 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:pg2435:16:63
# text = Master Peter had no control at all of the money affairs of the household, so the contents of this secret hoard were quite unknown to him, and this seemed to be a good opportunity for finding out what they were.
1	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	control	control	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hoard	hoard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nsubj	_	_
31	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	_
37	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	38	obj	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Master Peter | no control |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the contents of this secret hoard |  | Peter |  |  | unknown *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | a good opportunity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find out** | gerund | a good opportunity *not said here* | a good opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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