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title: “My grandson, this gold must be hidden in the earth, for if people t… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “My grandson, this gold must be hidden in the earth, for if people think they can get it when they choose, they will become lazy and stupid. Who acts: people. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 59

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“My grandson, this gold must be hidden in the earth, for if people think they can get it when they choose, they will become lazy and stupid.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** hide, think, get, choose, become · **To what, where:** grandson, earth, gold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg3282:8:59
# text = “My grandson, this gold must be hidden in the earth, for if people think they can get it when they choose, they will become lazy and stupid.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
29	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** *in a quote* | must · passive |  | My grandson and this gold |  | the earth |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in earth=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | can | people | gold |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **choose** *in a quote* | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **become** *in a quote* | future | people |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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