--- title: Once upon a time there was a goldsmith who lived in a certain villag… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Once upon a time there was a goldsmith who lived in a certain village where the people were as bad and greedy, and covetous, as they could possibly be; however, in spite of his surroundings, he was fat and prosperous. Who acts: goldsmith, people. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/70/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/) / 70 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 70 Once upon a time there was a goldsmith who lived in a certain village where the people were as bad and greedy, and covetous, as they could possibly be; however, in spite of his surroundings, he was fat and prosperous. **Who acts:** goldsmith, people · **What happens:** be, live, spite · **To what, where:** certain village, spite, surroundings This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goldsmith, people), 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:pg3027:11:70 # text = Once upon a time there was a goldsmith who lived in a certain village where the people were as bad and greedy, and covetous, as they could possibly be; however, in spite of his surroundings, he was fat and prosperous. 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 2 upon upon ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 goldsmith goldsmith NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 20 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 greedy greedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 covetous covetous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 possibly possibly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 33 however however ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 surroundings surroundings NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 prosperous prosperous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a goldsmith | | | there | | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **live** | past | a goldsmith | | | a certain village | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | | 3 | **is** | past | the people | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | the people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | the people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **can** | could | people | | | | | possibly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | Goldsmith | | | spite of Goldsmith's surroundings | | fat, however *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** | | Goldsmith *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **spite** | | | Goldsmith's surroundings | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/71/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/)