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title: “When the chance comes take it,” Conaran continued, and he smiled a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “When the chance comes take it,” Conaran continued, and he smiled a black, beetle-browed, unbenevolent smile. Who acts: chance, Conaran. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 19

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“When the chance comes take it,” Conaran continued, and he smiled a black, beetle-browed, unbenevolent smile.

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**Who acts:** chance, Conaran · **What happens:** come, take, continue, smile, brow · **To what, where:** chance, black browed unbenevolent smile · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance, Conaran), 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:pg2892:57:19
# text = “When the chance comes take it,” Conaran continued, and he smiled a black, beetle-browed, unbenevolent smile.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	Conaran	Conaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
17	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	browed	brow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	unbenevolent	unbenevolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the chance |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | present | Conaran *not said here* | chance |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **continue** | past | Conaran |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **smile** | past | Conaran | a black browed unbenevolent smile |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smile=Topic |
| 5 | **brow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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