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title: “You are a nice man to go wasting your time and your money drinking… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are a nice man to go wasting your time and your money drinking in that tavern, and leaving us to starve! Who acts: You, money. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 105

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“You are a nice man to go wasting your time and your money drinking in that tavern, and leaving us to starve!

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**Who acts:** You, money · **What happens:** be, go, waste, drink, leave, starve · **To what, where:** nice man, tavern, us

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, money), 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:pg3282:9:105
# text = “You are a nice man to go wasting your time and your money drinking in that tavern, and leaving us to starve!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	wasting	waste	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	tavern	tavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	starve	starve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | a nice man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **waste** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | gerund | your money *not said here* |  |  | that tavern |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leave** *in a quote* | gerund |  | us |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 6 | **starve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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