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title: 'Because the secret of my power lies in my little cap that is made o… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Because the secret of my power lies in my little cap that is made of rose leaves; but I had laid it aside for the moment, when that horrible crow pounced upon me. Who acts: I, horrible crow, my. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 78

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'Because the secret of my power lies in my little cap that is made of rose leaves; but I had laid it aside for the moment, when that horrible crow pounced upon me.

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**Who acts:** I, horrible crow, my · **What happens:** make, lay, pounce, lie · **To what, where:** little cap, cap

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, horrible crow, 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:pg3027:27:78
# text = 'Because the secret of my power lies in my little cap that is made of rose leaves; but I had laid it aside for the moment, when that horrible crow pounced upon me.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	pounced	pounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | my little cap |  |  |  | of rose leaves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **lay** | past · perfect | I | cap |  |  | moment | aside *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result |
| 3 | **pounce** | participle | that horrible crow |  |  |  |  | upon me | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon i=Trajectory |
| 4 | **lie** |  | my |  |  | my little cap |  |  | nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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