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title: When the beggar knew that Bernez would give him no trouble, he told… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the beggar knew that Bernez would give him no trouble, he told him how, during that very night, the treasures under the stones would be uncovered, and how in a very few minutes they could take enough to make them both rich for life. Who acts: beggar, Bernez, treasures. A sentence of «The Lilac 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 14

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When the beggar knew that Bernez would give him no trouble, he told him how, during that very night, the treasures under the stones would be uncovered, and how in a very few minutes they could take enough to make them both rich for life.

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**Who acts:** beggar, Bernez, treasures · **What happens:** know, give, tell, uncover, take, make · **To what, where:** trouble, beggar, treasures · **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 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar, Bernez, treasures), 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:pg3454:26:14
# text = When the beggar knew that Bernez would give him no trouble, he told him how, during that very night, the treasures under the stones would be uncovered, and how in a very few minutes they could take enough to make them both rich for life.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	during	during	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
33	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
42	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	advmod	_	_
47	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **know** | past | the beggar |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | would | Bernez | no trouble | beggar |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient trouble=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Bernez |  | beggar |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **uncover** | would · passive |  | the treasures under the stones |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | could | treasures *= treasure* |  |  |  | minute | enough *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | treasures *= treasure* *not said here* | treasures *= treasure* |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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