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title: In this way Hans suddenly became rich--rich enough to buy a property… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In this way Hans suddenly became rich--rich enough to buy a property of his own. Who acts: Hans. 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 84

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In this way Hans suddenly became rich--rich enough to buy a property of his own.

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**Who acts:** Hans · **What happens:** become, buy · **To what, where:** way, property

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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 (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:pg641:25:84
# text = In this way Hans suddenly became rich--rich enough to buy a property of his own.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Hans |  |  |  |  | in this way *result*; rich, suddenly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in way=Result |
| 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Hans *not said here* | a property of Hans's own |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=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 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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