--- title: But he never thought of spending the money on himself, because he wa… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But he never thought of spending the money on himself, because he was content to pass the rest of his days as he had been doing for ever so long, and he really had no desire for any greater comfort or luxury. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/7/) [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/) / [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/) / 7 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 7 But he never thought of spending the money on himself, because he was content to pass the rest of his days as he had been doing for ever so long, and he really had no desire for any greater comfort or luxury. **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** not think, spend, be, pass, do, have · **To what, where:** money, rest, desire 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 (man), 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:pg3282:34:7 # text = But he never thought of spending the money on himself, because he was content to pass the rest of his days as he had been doing for ever so long, and he really had no desire for any greater comfort or luxury. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 of of SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 spending spend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 content content ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 aux _ _ 27 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 27 obl _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 really really ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 42 det _ _ 41 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 amod _ _ 42 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 43 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 luxury luxury NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | man | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **spend** | gerund | man *not said here* | the money | | | | on man | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on himself=Goal | | 3 | **is** | past | man | | | | | content *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the rest of man's days | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rest=Trajectory | | 5 | **do** | past · perfect · progressive | man | | | | | long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | past | man | no desire | | | | for any greater comfort or luxury | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/8/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/34/)