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title: Bad people, if they were rolling stark naked in gold, would not be r… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Bad people, if they were rolling stark naked in gold, would not be rich. Who acts: people, Bad people. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 90

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Bad people, if they were rolling stark naked in gold, would not be rich.

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**Who acts:** people, Bad people · **What happens:** roll, not be · **To what, where:** Bad people, gold

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Bad 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:pg3454:10:90
# text = Bad people, if they were rolling stark naked in gold, would not be rich.
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
8	stark	stark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | people | Bad people *not said here* |  | gold |  | naked *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent people=Theme in gold=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **is** | would | Bad people |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | 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 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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