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title: ‘Rubbish! why there is enough there to buy ten kingdoms.’ — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Rubbish! why there is enough there to buy ten kingdoms.’ A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 27

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‘Rubbish! why there is enough there to buy ten kingdoms.’

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**What happens:** be, buy · **To what, where:** ten kingdoms

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. 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:pg540:23:27
# text = ‘Rubbish! why there is enough there to buy ten kingdoms.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | ten kingdoms |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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