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title: 'Two pounds a year, and nothing to do but keep some rooms clean,' sa… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Two pounds a year, and nothing to do but keep some rooms clean,' said the new-comer. Who acts: Two pounds, rooms. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 98

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'Two pounds a year, and nothing to do but keep some rooms clean,' said the new-comer.

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**Who acts:** Two pounds, rooms · **What happens:** do, keep, clean, say · **To what, where:** new comer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two pounds, rooms), 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:pg3027:38:98
# text = 'Two pounds a year, and nothing to do but keep some rooms clean,' said the new-comer.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	clean	clean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	comer	comer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | to-infinitive | Two pounds  a year *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | Two pounds  a year *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **clean** | present | some rooms |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Two pounds  a year | the new comer |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent comer=Topic |

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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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