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title: To none comes wealth without trouble: we must first dig out the gold… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To none comes wealth without trouble: we must first dig out the gold and mix the grains with earth, clay, and sand. Who acts: none, we. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 55

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To none comes wealth without trouble: we must first dig out the gold and mix the grains with earth, clay, and sand.

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**Who acts:** none, we · **What happens:** come, dig out, mix · **To what, where:** wealth, gold, grains

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, we), 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:pg641:25:55
# text = To none comes wealth without trouble: we must first dig out the gold and mix the grains with earth, clay, and sand.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
11	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	mix	mix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | none | wealth |  |  |  | without trouble | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wealth=Theme |
| 2 | **dig out** | must | we | the gold |  |  |  | first *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 3 | **mix** | infinitive | we *not said here* | the grains |  |  |  | with earth and clay | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent grain=Patient with earth=Co-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 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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