--- title: ‘Ah, no!’ answered the gardener, ‘I am no child of fortune; I am a p… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Ah, no!’ answered the gardener, ‘I am no child of fortune; I am a poor soldier, who never could get enough to live upon; so I laid aside my red coat, and set to work, tilling the ground. Who acts: I, poor soldier. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, poor soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2591:39:10 # text = ‘Ah, no!’ answered the gardener, ‘I am no child of fortune; I am a poor soldier, who never could get enough to live upon; so I laid aside my red coat, and set to work, tilling the ground. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 2 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 29 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 32 upon upon ADP IN _ 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 37 aside aside ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 tilling till VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 advcl _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | the gardener | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gardener=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** | present | I | no child | | | | of fortune | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | I | a poor soldier | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **get** | could | a poor soldier | enough | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus | | 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | a poor soldier *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **lay** | past | I | | | | | aside my red coat | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **set** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **work** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **till** | gerund | I *not said here* | the ground | | | | | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/39/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/39/11/) - ↑ back to [The Turnip](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/39/)