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title: ‘Ah, sir,’ replied Hans calmly, ‘in order to have gained so much mon… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ah, sir,’ replied Hans calmly, ‘in order to have gained so much money you must have lain awake all night, but I have earned a hundred times that amount while I was sleeping soundly.’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, with its dependency tre
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 129

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‘Ah, sir,’ replied Hans calmly, ‘in order to have gained so much money you must have lain awake all night, but I have earned a hundred times that amount while I was sleeping soundly.’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** reply, gain, lie, earn, sleep · **To what, where:** Hans, much money

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg641:33:129
# text = ‘Ah, sir,’ replied Hans calmly, ‘in order to have gained so much money you must have lain awake all night, but I have earned a hundred times that amount while I was sleeping soundly.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	‘	‘	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	fixed	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	earned	earn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	det	_	_
36	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:unmarked	_	_
37	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
41	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | Hans |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent han=Topic |
| 2 | **gain** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | much money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | must · perfect | you | much money *not said here* |  |  | night | awake *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme |
| 4 | **earn** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sleep** | past · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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