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title: But if they had next to nothing of all else they had the blessing of… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But if they had next to nothing of all else they had the blessing of God so far as children were concerned, and every year brought them one more. Who acts: ’s, children, year. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 60

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But if they had next to nothing of all else they had the blessing of God so far as children were concerned, and every year brought them one more.

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**Who acts:** ’s, children, year · **What happens:** have, be, bring, bless · **To what, where:** blessing, ’s, God

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (’s, children, year), 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:pg540:44:60
# text = But if they had next to nothing of all else they had the blessing of God so far as children were concerned, and every year brought them one more.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	next	next	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	_
10	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | ’s *= '* |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | ’s *= '* | the blessing of God |  |  |  | to nothing; far *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | children |  |  |  |  | concerned *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | past | every year | ’s *= '* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination more=Theme |
| 5 | **bless** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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