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title: ‘There is a rich farmer up there on the hill, who has just sold all… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘There is a rich farmer up there on the hill, who has just sold all his fat cattle for much money and has bought some lean ones which will cost him little. Who acts: rich farmer, lean ones. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree an
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 106

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‘There is a rich farmer up there on the hill, who has just sold all his fat cattle for much money and has bought some lean ones which will cost him little.

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**Who acts:** rich farmer, lean ones · **What happens:** be, sell, buy, cost · **To what, where:** rich farmer, lean ones, son

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (rich farmer, lean ones), 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:pg3454:1:106
# text = ‘There is a rich farmer up there on the hill, who has just sold all his fat cattle for much money and has bought some lean ones which will cost him little.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a rich farmer |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sell** | present · perfect · passive |  | a rich farmer |  |  |  | for much money | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient cattle=Theme for money=Asset |
| 3 | **buy** | present · perfect |  | some lean ones |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **cost** | future | some lean ones |  | son |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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