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title: ‘I have so much that I can quite well throw some away!’ and he poure… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I have so much that I can quite well throw some away!’ and he poured some mud out of his pocket. Who acts: I, HANS. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 173

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‘I have so much that I can quite well throw some away!’ and he poured some mud out of his pocket.

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**Who acts:** I, HANS · **What happens:** have, throw away, pour · **To what, where:** some, mud, pocket

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, HANS), 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:pg640:50:173
# text = ‘I have so much that I can quite well throw some away!’ and he poured some mud out of his pocket.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw away** | can | I | some |  |  |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 3 | **pour** | past | HANS | some mud |  | HANS's pocket |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent mud=Theme out pocket=Initial\_Location |

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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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