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title: Now he lived very gaily, went to the theatre, drove in the King’s ga… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now he lived very gaily, went to the theatre, drove in the King’s garden, and gave the poor a great deal of money, which was very nice of him; he had experienced in former times how hard it is not to have a farthing in the world. Who acts: soldier, money, deal. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 78

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Now he lived very gaily, went to the theatre, drove in the King’s garden, and gave the poor a great deal of money, which was very nice of him; he had experienced in former times how hard it is not to have a farthing in the world.

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**Who acts:** soldier, money, deal · **What happens:** live, go, drive, give, be, experience · **To what, where:** theatre, garden, poor, money

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, money, deal), 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:pg640:46:78
# text = Now he lived very gaily, went to the theatre, drove in the King’s garden, and gave the poor a great deal of money, which was very nice of him; he had experienced in former times how hard it is not to have a farthing in the world.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
42	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
43	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	advcl	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	farthing	farthing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | soldier |  |  |  | now | gaily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | soldier *not said here* |  |  | the theatre |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to theatre=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **drive** | past | soldier *not said here* |  |  | the King's garden |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | soldier *not said here* | the poor |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent poor=Recipient deal=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | money |  |  |  |  | of soldier; nice *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **experience** | past · perfect | soldier |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **is** | present | deal |  |  |  |  | have *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **deal** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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