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title: When the owner of the house came to take away his money Don Giovanni… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the owner of the house came to take away his money Don Giovanni led him into the room and said: ‘There, just pocket what you want.’ Who acts: owner, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 38

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When the owner of the house came to take away his money Don Giovanni led him into the room and said: ‘There, just pocket what you want.’

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**Who acts:** owner, you · **What happens:** come, take away, lead, say, want · **To what, where:** money, Don, room, pocket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner, you), 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:pg5615:39:38
# text = When the owner of the house came to take away his money Don Giovanni led him into the room and said: ‘There, just pocket what you want.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	away	away	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the owner of the house |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take away** | to-infinitive | the owner of the house *not said here* | owner's money |  |  |  | Don *obl* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | past |  | Don |  | the room |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into room=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **want** | present | you | pocket |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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 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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