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title: But, as all poor people may remember for their consolation, nothing… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, as all poor people may remember for their consolation, nothing in the world causes so much trouble or requires so much care as a great treasure. Who acts: poor people, people. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 58

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But, as all poor people may remember for their consolation, nothing in the world causes so much trouble or requires so much care as a great treasure.

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**Who acts:** poor people, people · **What happens:** remember, cause, require, console · **To what, where:** much trouble, much care

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor people, people), 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:pg7277:9:58
# text = But, as all poor people may remember for their consolation, nothing in the world causes so much trouble or requires so much care as a great treasure.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	nsubj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	consolation	consolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	requires	require	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | may | all poor people |  |  |  |  | for people's consolation | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cause** | present |  | much trouble |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient |
| 3 | **require** | present |  | much care |  |  |  | as a great treasure | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme care=Precondition |
| 4 | **console** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom consolation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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