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title: ‘I had no money over to buy anything else with,’ replied Martin. — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I had no money over to buy anything else with,’ replied Martin. Who acts: I. 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 36

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‘I had no money over to buy anything else with,’ replied Martin.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have over, buy, reply · **To what, where:** money, anything, Martin

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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 (I), 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:pg640:33:36
# text = ‘I had no money over to buy anything else with,’ replied Martin.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
10	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have over** | past | I | no money |  |  |  | over *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | Martin |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent martin=Topic |

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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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