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title: 'He shan't have such a chance again,' thought he; and the next morni… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'He shan't have such a chance again,' thought he; and the next morning he insisted on plunging into a thick forest where they were likely to meet nobody. Who acts: brother, bits. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 120

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'He shan't have such a chance again,' thought he; and the next morning he insisted on plunging into a thick forest where they were likely to meet nobody.

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**Who acts:** brother, bits · **What happens:** not have, think, insist, plunge, be, meet · **To what, where:** chance, brother, thick forest, nobody

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, bits), 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:pg3027:19:120
# text = 'He shan't have such a chance again,' thought he; and the next morning he insisted on plunging into a thick forest where they were likely to meet nobody.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	sha	sha	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	insisted	insist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	plunging	plunge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** |  | brother | such chance |  |  | again |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | brother *not said here* | brother |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 3 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | brother |  |  |  | morning |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **plunge** | gerund | brother *not said here* |  |  | a thick forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | bits *= bit* |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **meet** | to-infinitive | bits *= bit* *not said here* | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Co-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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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