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title: ‘We have no money, my poor Mannikin, and we are altogether badly off… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘We have no money, my poor Mannikin, and we are altogether badly off, and at a loss to know what to do next.’ Who acts: We. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 35

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‘We have no money, my poor Mannikin, and we are altogether badly off, and at a loss to know what to do next.’

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** have, be, know, do · **To what, where:** money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7277:15:35
# text = ‘We have no money, my poor Mannikin, and we are altogether badly off, and at a loss to know what to do next.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
27	next	next	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | We | no money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | altogether, badly, off *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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