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title: When they had finished the wife asked, ‘But husband, where do all th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had finished the wife asked, ‘But husband, where do all these riches come from?’ Who acts: spirits, wife, riches. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 22

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When they had finished the wife asked, ‘But husband, where do all these riches come from?’

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**Who acts:** spirits, wife, riches · **What happens:** finish, ask, come · **To what, where:** husband

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirits, wife, riches), 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:pg7277:49:22
# text = When they had finished the wife asked, ‘But husband, where do all these riches come from?’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | spirits *= spirit* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the wife | husband |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | present · do-support | all riches |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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