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title: Though all his life long he had toiled and moiled, he only left his… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Though all his life long he had toiled and moiled, he only left his widow and son two hundred florins. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 3

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Though all his life long he had toiled and moiled, he only left his widow and son two hundred florins.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** toil, moil, leave · **To what, where:** life, widow

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg640:33:3
# text = Though all his life long he had toiled and moiled, he only left his widow and son two hundred florins.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	toiled	toil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	moiled	moil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	florins	florin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toil** | past · perfect · passive |  | man's life |  |  |  | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **moil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past | man | man's widow and son |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent widow=Theme florin=Attribute |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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