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title: At the year's end, thought he, enough money would lie in his pocket… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the year's end, thought he, enough money would lie in his pocket to carry him into far countries where his sister might be, and, in the meanwhile, someone might come past who could give him tidings of her. Who acts: wisdom, meanwhile. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening,
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 18

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At the year's end, thought he, enough money would lie in his pocket to carry him into far countries where his sister might be, and, in the meanwhile, someone might come past who could give him tidings of her.

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**Who acts:** wisdom, meanwhile · **What happens:** think, lie, carry, come, give · **To what, where:** end, pocket, wisdom, far countries, tidings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wisdom, meanwhile), 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:pg3027:30:18
# text = At the year's end, thought he, enough money would lie in his pocket to carry him into far countries where his sister might be, and, in the meanwhile, someone might come past who could give him tidings of her.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	meanwhile	meanwhile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	37	nsubj	_	_
36	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
38	past	past	ADP	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	iobj	_	_
43	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  | at the year's end |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | would | wisdom |  |  | wisdom's pocket |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | wisdom *not said here* | wisdom |  | far countries |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | might | the meanwhile |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | could |  | tidings of meanwhile | wisdom |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tiding=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 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.

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