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title: Often enough in life help comes to us from the most unexpected quart… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Often enough in life help comes to us from the most unexpected quarter.” Who acts: enough life help. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 60

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Often enough in life help comes to us from the most unexpected quarter.”

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**Who acts:** enough life help · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** us, unexpected quarter

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enough life help), 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:pg2435:17:60
# text = Often enough in life help comes to us from the most unexpected quarter.”
1	Often	often	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | enough life help |  | us | the unexpected quarter |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to we=Initial\_Location from quarter=Destination |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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