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title: In spite of the wretched state of the hut, which many people declare… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In spite of the wretched state of the hut, which many people declared was too bad even for a pig to live in, the old man was very rich, for he was a great miser, and lucky besides, and would often go without food all day sooner than change one of his beloved gold pieces. Who acts: many people, hut, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 95

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In spite of the wretched state of the hut, which many people declared was too bad even for a pig to live in, the old man was very rich, for he was a great miser, and lucky besides, and would often go without food all day sooner than change one of his beloved gold pieces.

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**Who acts:** many people, hut, old man, man · **What happens:** declare, be, live in, go, change, spite · **To what, where:** spite, one, wretched state

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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 (many people, hut, old man, man), 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:pg2435:17:95
# text = In spite of the wretched state of the hut, which many people declared was too bad even for a pig to live in, the old man was very rich, for he was a great miser, and lucky besides, and would often go without food all day sooner than change one of his beloved gold pieces.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	miser	miser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	often	often	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
48	without	without	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
50	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	det	_	_
51	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl:unmarked	_	_
52	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	47	advmod	_	_
53	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
54	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	_
55	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
58	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
59	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | many people |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the hut |  |  |  |  | for a pig; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live in** | to-infinitive | the hut *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the old man |  |  | spite of the wretched state of the hut |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | for a great miser and lucky besides | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | would |  |  |  |  | day | without food; often, soon *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **change** | infinitive |  | one of man's beloved gold pieces |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 8 | **spite** |  |  | the wretched state of the hut |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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