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title: ‘Ah, my dear creatures,’ thought the beggar, who had of course heard… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah, my dear creatures,’ thought the beggar, who had of course heard everything, ‘you are going to make me richer than the richest men of Vannes or Lorient. Who acts: beggar, you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 82

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‘Ah, my dear creatures,’ thought the beggar, who had of course heard everything, ‘you are going to make me richer than the richest men of Vannes or Lorient.

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**Who acts:** beggar, you · **What happens:** think, hear, go, make · **To what, where:** everything, me

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:2303`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:25:82
# text = ‘Ah, my dear creatures,’ thought the beggar, who had of course heard everything, ‘you are going to make me richer than the richest men of Vannes or Lorient.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	17	advmod	_	_
16	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	fixed	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Vannes	Vannes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Lorient	Lorient	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the beggar |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | the beggar | everything |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | my dear creatures *vocative* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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