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title: My only comfort that, in this great forest, full of lions and serpen… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My only comfort that, in this great forest, full of lions and serpents, my life will be a short one.' Who acts: only comfort, My. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 86

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My only comfort that, in this great forest, full of lions and serpents, my life will be a short one.'

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**Who acts:** only comfort, My · **What happens:** be, comfort · **To what, where:** short one

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (only comfort, My), 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:pg3027:23:86
# text = My only comfort that, in this great forest, full of lions and serpents, my life will be a short one.'
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | future | My only comfort and this great forest and my life | a short one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **comfort** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom comfort «state 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 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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