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title: It will be easy to find a buyer, tanukis’ skins are always wanted; t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It will be easy to find a buyer, tanukis’ skins are always wanted; then buy some food with the money and come home again. Who acts: buyer. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 26

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It will be easy to find a buyer, tanukis’ skins are always wanted; then buy some food with the money and come home again.

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**Who acts:** buyer · **What happens:** be, find, want, buy, come · **To what, where:** buyer, skins, food

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buyer), 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:pg2435:32:26
# text = It will be easy to find a buyer, tanukis’ skins are always wanted; then buy some food with the money and come home again.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	buyer	buyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	tanukis	tanuki	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	wanted	want	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	home	home	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | a buyer |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buyer=Topic |
| 3 | **want** | present · passive | a buyer *not said here* | tanukis's skins |  |  |  | always *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **buy** | infinitive |  | some food |  |  | then | with the money | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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