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title: He is in better circumstances than I am, has great, big rooms, and w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He is in better circumstances than I am, has great, big rooms, and wears a fine black-velvet coat. Who acts: neighbour. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 142

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He is in better circumstances than I am, has great, big rooms, and wears a fine black-velvet coat.

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**Who acts:** neighbour · **What happens:** be, have, wear · **To what, where:** better circumstances, fine velvet coat

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbour), 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:pg640:47:142
# text = He is in better circumstances than I am, has great, big rooms, and wears a fine black-velvet coat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	velvet	velvet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | neighbour |  |  | better circumstances |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  | great *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wear** | present |  | a fine velvet coat |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=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 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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