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title: But his money would not last forever; and as he spent and gave away… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But his money would not last forever; and as he spent and gave away a great deal daily, and received none, he found himself at last with only two shillings left. Who acts: money, soldier. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 56

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But his money would not last forever; and as he spent and gave away a great deal daily, and received none, he found himself at last with only two shillings left.

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**Who acts:** money, soldier · **What happens:** not last, spend, give away, receive, find, leave · **To what, where:** great deal, none, soldier, two shillings

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money, soldier), 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:pg27200:193:56
# text = But his money would not last forever; and as he spent and gave away a great deal daily, and received none, he found himself at last with only two shillings left.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
23	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	shillings	shilling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
34	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **last** | would | soldier's money |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | past | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give away** | past | soldier *not said here* | a great deal |  |  |  | away, daily *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent deal=Theme |
| 4 | **receive** | past |  | none |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past | soldier | soldier |  |  |  | last *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 6 | **leave** | participle |  | two shillings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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