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title: For a long time all went well; the young man got up very early in th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a long time all went well; the young man got up very early in the morning, and worked hard all day, and at the end of every week his father counted up the money they had made, and rubbed his hands with delight, as he saw how big the pile of gold in the strong iron chest was becoming. Who acts: y
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 83

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For a long time all went well; the young man got up very early in the morning, and worked hard all day, and at the end of every week his father counted up the money they had made, and rubbed his hands with delight, as he saw how big the pile of gold in the strong iron chest was becoming.

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**Who acts:** young man, father, men · **What happens:** go, get up, work, count up, make, rub · **To what, where:** money, end, hands, big pile, strong iron chest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, father, men), 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:pg3454:18:83
# text = For a long time all went well; the young man got up very early in the morning, and worked hard all day, and at the end of every week his father counted up the money they had made, and rubbed his hands with delight, as he saw how big the pile of gold in the strong iron chest was becoming.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
53	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	54	advmod	_	_
54	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
61	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
62	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	_
64	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  | time | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get up** | past | the young man |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **work** | past | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  | day | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **count up** | past | elder's father | the money |  |  | at the end of every week |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** | past · perfect | men *= man* | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product |
| 6 | **rub** | past |  | elder's hands |  |  |  | with delight | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Destination with delight=Theme |
| 7 | **see** | past | father | the big pile of gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **become** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | in the strong iron chest *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in chest=Result |

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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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