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title: This barrel of nails is my whole fortune, which I wish to give as my… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This barrel of nails is my whole fortune, which I wish to give as my contribution towards the bride’s house furnishing.” Who acts: barrel, I, house, my. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 29

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This barrel of nails is my whole fortune, which I wish to give as my contribution towards the bride’s house furnishing.”

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**Who acts:** barrel, I, house, my · **What happens:** be, wish, give, furnish, contribute · **To what, where:** whole fortune

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barrel, I, house, my), 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:pg2435:17:29
# text = This barrel of nails is my whole fortune, which I wish to give as my contribution towards the bride’s house furnishing.”
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	contribution	contribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	furnishing	furnish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this barrel of nails | my whole fortune |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** | present | I | my whole fortune |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as my contribution; towards the bride's house | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **furnish** | gerund | the bride's house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **contribute** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom contribution «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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