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title: ‘Oh, what a good-for-nothing fellow to want to spend all the money h… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, what a good-for-nothing fellow to want to spend all the money himself! A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 75

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‘Oh, what a good-for-nothing fellow to want to spend all the money himself!

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**What happens:** want, spend · **To what, where:** money

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg641:16:75
# text = ‘Oh, what a good-for-nothing fellow to want to spend all the money himself!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	compound	_	_
11	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | all money |  |  |  | fellow *obl* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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