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title: He who stands well with Ahti is soon a rich man, but one must beware… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He who stands well with Ahti is soon a rich man, but one must beware in dealing with him, for he is very changeful and touchy. Who acts: Ahti, one. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 68

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He who stands well with Ahti is soon a rich man, but one must beware in dealing with him, for he is very changeful and touchy.

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**Who acts:** Ahti, one · **What happens:** stand, be, beware, deal · **To what, where:** rich man

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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 (Ahti, one), 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:pg3454:23:68
# text = He who stands well with Ahti is soon a rich man, but one must beware in dealing with him, for he is very changeful and touchy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	changeful	changeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	touchy	touchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | Ahti |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Ahti | a rich man |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **beware** | must | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **deal** | gerund | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Ahti | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with he=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | Ahti |  |  |  |  | changeful *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | Ahti *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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