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title: I shall take my treasures home, and perhaps some day I may find a ma… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall take my treasures home, and perhaps some day I may find a man who knows how to make the best of the chances that are given to him. Who acts: I, man, my. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 37

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I shall take my treasures home, and perhaps some day I may find a man who knows how to make the best of the chances that are given to him.

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**Who acts:** I, man, my · **What happens:** take, find, know, make, give, treasure · **To what, where:** treasures, man, best, chances · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, 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:pg3282:10:37
# text = I shall take my treasures home, and perhaps some day I may find a man who knows how to make the best of the chances that are given to him.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	chances	chance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall | I | my treasures |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | may | I | a man |  |  | day | perhaps *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 3 | **know** | present | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the best |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product |
| 5 | **give** | present · passive |  | the chances | man |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 6 | **treasure** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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