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title: He had both lands and money, but, though he was so well off, one thi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had both lands and money, but, though he was so well off, one thing was wanting to complete his happiness; he had no children. Who acts: farmer, one thing. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 2

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He had both lands and money, but, though he was so well off, one thing was wanting to complete his happiness; he had no children.

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**Who acts:** farmer, one thing · **What happens:** have, be, want, complete · **To what, where:** lands, happiness, children

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, one thing), 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:pg7277:48:2
# text = He had both lands and money, but, though he was so well off, one thing was wanting to complete his happiness; he had no children.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	off	off	ADV	RB	_	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | farmer | both lands and money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | farmer |  |  |  |  | off, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | past · progressive | one thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **complete** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one thing *not said here* | farmer's happiness |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Eventuality |
| 5 | **have** | past | farmer | no children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

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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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