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title: Then it will fall, and under its roots will be found more gold and s… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it will fall, and under its roots will be found more gold and silver than even Mark the Rich has got.’ Who acts: oak, Rich. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 128

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Then it will fall, and under its roots will be found more gold and silver than even Mark the Rich has got.’

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**Who acts:** oak, Rich · **What happens:** fall, find, get · **To what, where:** more gold, roots, Mark

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oak, Rich), 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:pg641:4:128
# text = Then it will fall, and under its roots will be found more gold and silver than even Mark the Rich has got.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	Mark	Mark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Rich	Rich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | future | oak |  |  |  | then |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | future · passive |  | more gold and silver |  | oak's roots |  | than Mark | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: gold=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | present · perfect | the Rich | Mark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus |

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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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