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title: Others may have riches, beauty and wit, but as for me I desire nothi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Others may have riches, beauty and wit, but as for me I desire nothing but to be the poor peasant girl I always was, working hard for those she loves.’ Who acts: Others, I, girl. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 71

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Others may have riches, beauty and wit, but as for me I desire nothing but to be the poor peasant girl I always was, working hard for those she loves.’

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**Who acts:** Others, I, girl · **What happens:** have, desire, be, work, love · **To what, where:** riches, nothing, poor peasant girl

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Others, I, girl), 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:pg3454:33:71
# text = Others may have riches, beauty and wit, but as for me I desire nothing but to be the poor peasant girl I always was, working hard for those she loves.’
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	obj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
29	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	obl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | may | Others | riches |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Patient |
| 2 | **desire** | present | I | nothing |  |  |  | as me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the poor peasant girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for those; hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for that=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **love** | present | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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