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title: “If it cannot be bought either for gold or money, what will buy it? — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “If it cannot be bought either for gold or money, what will buy it? A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 116

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“If it cannot be bought either for gold or money, what will buy it?

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**What happens:** not buy, buy · **To what, where:** apple

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg503:4:116
# text = “If it cannot be bought either for gold or money, what will buy it?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
8	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc:preconj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **buy** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can · passive |  | apple |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary gold=Theme |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | future |  | apple |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary it=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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