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title: They had only one child, a son, who was their pride and joy, and for… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They had only one child, a son, who was their pride and joy, and for his sake they were ready to work hard all day long, and never felt tired or discontented with their lot. Who acts: Brauns, son. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tr
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 52

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They had only one child, a son, who was their pride and joy, and for his sake they were ready to work hard all day long, and never felt tired or discontented with their lot.

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**Who acts:** Brauns, son · **What happens:** have, be, work, not feel, discontent · **To what, where:** one child, pride

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brauns, son), 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:pg5615:3:52
# text = They had only one child, a son, who was their pride and joy, and for his sake they were ready to work hard all day long, and never felt tired or discontented with their lot.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	discontented	discontent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Brauns *= braun* | one child and a son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a son | Brauns's pride and joy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Brauns *= braun* |  |  |  |  | for son's sake; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | to-infinitive | Brauns *= braun* *not said here* |  |  |  | day | hard, long *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **feel** | past | Brauns *= braun* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **discontent** | participle | Brauns *= braun* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Brauns's lot | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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