--- title: It was such a new thing to them to have money to spend, that they we… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was such a new thing to them to have money to spend, that they were not as careful as they might have been, and by-and-by there was not a single coin left in the purse. Who acts: cottage, thing. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/22/13/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/22/) / 13 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 13 It was such a new thing to them to have money to spend, that they were not as careful as they might have been, and by-and-by there was not a single coin left in the purse. **Who acts:** cottage, thing · **What happens:** be, have, spend, not be, leave · **To what, where:** new thing, thing, money, single coin, purse This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cottage, thing), 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:pg3282:22:13 # text = It was such a new thing to them to have money to spend, that they were not as careful as they might have been, and by-and-by there was not a single coin left in the purse. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 6 det:predet _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 11 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux _ _ 25 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 by by SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 39 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | cottage | such new thing and a single coin | thing | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | | money | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | | 3 | **spend** | to-infinitive | | money *not said here* | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is** | past | thing | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | might · perfect | thing | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | cottage *not said here* | | | | | by a single coin | tree rules | | 7 | **leave** | participle | | a single coin *not said here* | | | | in the purse *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in purse=Result | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/22/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/22/14/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/22/)