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title: He would not, of course, take the money out to count it, for that mi… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He would not, of course, take the money out to count it, for that might bring him bad luck. Who acts: bargain, that. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 31

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He would not, of course, take the money out to count it, for that might bring him bad luck.

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**Who acts:** bargain, that · **What happens:** not take out, count, bring · **To what, where:** money, bad luck, bargain

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bargain, that), 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:pg3282:27:31
# text = He would not, of course, take the money out to count it, for that might bring him bad luck.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take out** | would | bargain | the money |  |  |  | out *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | to-infinitive | bargain *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | might | that | bad luck | bargain |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination luck=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 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.

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