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title: My mother died without ever finding a chance of doing anything new,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My mother died without ever finding a chance of doing anything new, but I took advantage of the evil act of the giant to make you as whole as ever.” Who acts: mother, chance, I, giant. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 68

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My mother died without ever finding a chance of doing anything new, but I took advantage of the evil act of the giant to make you as whole as ever.”

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**Who acts:** mother, chance, I, giant · **What happens:** die, find, do, take, make, act · **To what, where:** chance, anything, advantage, you

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, chance, I, giant), 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:pg3282:28:68
# text = My mother died without ever finding a chance of doing anything new, but I took advantage of the evil act of the giant to make you as whole as ever.”
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | My mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | My mother *not said here* | a chance |  |  | ever |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | a chance *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** | past | I | advantage of the evil act of the giant |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 6 | **act** |  | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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