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title: “My husband lies dead at home, and he has spent all our money, and s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “My husband lies dead at home, and he has spent all our money, and sold everything, and I have nothing left to bury him with,” sobbed the wife. Who acts: husband, wife. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 101

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“My husband lies dead at home, and he has spent all our money, and sold everything, and I have nothing left to bury him with,” sobbed the wife.

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**Who acts:** husband, wife · **What happens:** lie, spend, sell, have, leave, bury · **To what, where:** money, everything, nothing, wife

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife), 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:pg2435:28:101
# text = “My husband lies dead at home, and he has spent all our money, and sold everything, and I have nothing left to bury him with,” sobbed the wife.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	obj	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
32	sobbed	sob	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | My husband |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spend** *in a quote* | present · perfect | husband | our money |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 3 | **sell** *in a quote* | past |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | wife | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bury** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **sob** | past |  | the wife |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |

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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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