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title: ‘Here, Moti, are fifty silver pieces which are the savings of years;… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Here, Moti, are fifty silver pieces which are the savings of years; take them and go and make your living or your fortune if you can.’ Who acts: fifty silver pieces, your. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 42

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‘Here, Moti, are fifty silver pieces which are the savings of years; take them and go and make your living or your fortune if you can.’

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**Who acts:** fifty silver pieces, your · **What happens:** be, take, go, make, live · **To what, where:** fifty silver pieces, savings, living

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fifty silver pieces, your), 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:pg3454:15:42
# text = ‘Here, Moti, are fifty silver pieces which are the savings of years; take them and go and make your living or your fortune if you can.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | fifty silver pieces and the savings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | fifty silver pieces and the savings | the savings |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | savings |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive |  | your living or your fortune |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product |
| 6 | **live** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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