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title: Now there lived in the village not far from Simon’s house, a peasant… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there lived in the village not far from Simon’s house, a peasant who had two goats, so alike in every respect that it was impossible to distinguish one from the other. Who acts: peasant, respect. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 48

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Now there lived in the village not far from Simon’s house, a peasant who had two goats, so alike in every respect that it was impossible to distinguish one from the other.

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**Who acts:** peasant, respect · **What happens:** live, have, be, distinguish · **To what, where:** village, two goats, one

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, respect), 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:pg7277:26:48
# text = Now there lived in the village not far from Simon’s house, a peasant who had two goats, so alike in every respect that it was impossible to distinguish one from the other.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Simon	Simon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	expl	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	csubj	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | the village; there | now | from Simon's house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | a peasant | two goats |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | every respect *not said here* |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **distinguish** | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  | from the other | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme from other=Co-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 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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