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title: Now the Governor of the province lived by his father’s cottage, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Governor of the province lived by his father’s cottage, and this Governor had such a large house and so much money that he did not even know how much it was, and he had a daughter too who was both pretty and dainty, and good and wise. Who acts: Governor, money. A sentence of «The Red Fairy B
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 94

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Now the Governor of the province lived by his father’s cottage, and this Governor had such a large house and so much money that he did not even know how much it was, and he had a daughter too who was both pretty and dainty, and good and wise.

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**Who acts:** Governor, money · **What happens:** live, have, not know, be · **To what, where:** large house, daughter, dainty

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Governor, money), 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:pg540:9:94
# text = Now the Governor of the province lived by his father’s cottage, and this Governor had such a large house and so much money that he did not even know how much it was, and he had a daughter too who was both pretty and dainty, and good and wise.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	Governor	Governor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
32	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
33	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	too	too	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
43	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
45	both	both	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	dainty	dainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the Governor of the province |  |  |  | now | by Governor's father's cottage | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by cottage=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | this Governor | such large house and much money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Governor |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | money |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | Governor | a daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | dainty |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |

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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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