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title: By-and-bye the fame of his riches reached the ears of the king, and,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By-and-bye the fame of his riches reached the ears of the king, and, as he himself was always in need of money, he sent for Don Giovanni, as he wished to borrow a large sum. Who acts: Don. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 42

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By-and-bye the fame of his riches reached the ears of the king, and, as he himself was always in need of money, he sent for Don Giovanni, as he wished to borrow a large sum.

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**Who acts:** Don · **What happens:** reach, be, send, wish, borrow · **To what, where:** ears, need, large sum

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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 (Don), 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:pg5615:39:42
# text = By-and-bye the fame of his riches reached the ears of the king, and, as he himself was always in need of money, he sent for Don Giovanni, as he wished to borrow a large sum.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bye	bye	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	21	nmod:unmarked	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past |  | the ears of the king |  |  |  | by the fame of Don's riches | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Don |  |  | need |  | of money; always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | past | Don |  |  |  |  | for Don | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wish** | past | Don |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **borrow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Don *not said here* | a large sum |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=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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