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title: “Riches!” cried Wali Dâd, “what has an old man like me with one foot… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Riches!” cried Wali Dâd, “what has an old man like me with one foot in the grave to do with riches? Who acts: Riches. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 60

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“Riches!” cried Wali Dâd, “what has an old man like me with one foot in the grave to do with riches?

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**Who acts:** Riches · **What happens:** cry, have, do · **To what, where:** Wali, old man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Riches), 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:pg3282:34:60
# text = “Riches!” cried Wali Dâd, “what has an old man like me with one foot in the grave to do with riches?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Wali	Wali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Riches | Wali |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wali=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | a old man |  |  |  | like Riches *= rich*; with one foot in the grave | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with riches | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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