---
title: Matte and Maie were industrious, hard-working folk, happy and conten… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Matte and Maie were industrious, hard-working folk, happy and contented in their poor hut, and they thought themselves rich when they were able to salt as many casks of fish as they required for winter and yet have some left over with which to buy tobacco for the old man, and a pound or two of coffe
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/32/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/) / 32

# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 32

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Matte and Maie were industrious, hard-working folk, happy and contented in their poor hut, and they thought themselves rich when they were able to salt as many casks of fish as they required for winter and yet have some left over with which to buy tobacco for the old man, and a pound or two of coffee for his wife, with plenty of burned corn and chicory in it to give it a flavour.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Matte · **What happens:** be, work, content, think, require, have · **To what, where:** poor hut, Matte, salt, some, tobacco · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matte), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg3454:23:32
# text = Matte and Maie were industrious, hard-working folk, happy and contented in their poor hut, and they thought themselves rich when they were able to salt as many casks of fish as they required for winter and yet have some left over with which to buy tobacco for the old man, and a pound or two of coffee for his wife, with plenty of burned corn and chicory in it to give it a flavour.
1	Matte	matte	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Maie	Maie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	industrious	industrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	casks	cask	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
44	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	obj	_	_
45	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
46	over	over	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	_
51	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
60	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	59	conj	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	_
64	for	for	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
68	with	with	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
70	of	of	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
71	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	72	amod	_	_
72	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	nmod	_	_
73	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	74	cc	_	_
74	chicory	chicory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	conj	_	_
75	in	in	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
76	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	72	nmod	_	_
77	to	to	PART	TO	_	78	mark	_	_
78	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	69	acl	_	_
79	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	obj	_	_
80	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	81	det	_	_
81	flavour	flavour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	78	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Matte and Maie |  |  |  |  | industrious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **content** | participle | Matte and Maie *not said here* |  |  | Matte's poor hut |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Matte | Matte |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | Matte | salt |  |  |  | as many casks of fish; able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **require** | past | Matte |  |  |  | winter |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | present | Matte *not said here* | some |  |  | yet |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 8 | **leave over** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 9 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | tobacco |  |  |  | for the old man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tobacco=Theme for man=Beneficiary |
| 10 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **give** | to-infinitive | Matte and Maie *not said here* | tobacco |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient flavour=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/31/)
- next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/33/)
- ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/)