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title: Why, I could find my way straight up to that cot this moment, if I w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, I could find my way straight up to that cot this moment, if I was once inside the palace.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 8

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Why, I could find my way straight up to that cot this moment, if I was once inside the palace.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** find, be · **To what, where:** way, palace

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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 (I), 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:pg3282:28:8
# text = Why, I could find my way straight up to that cot this moment, if I was once inside the palace.”
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	cot	cot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
20	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could | I | my way |  |  | moment | up that cot | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I |  |  | the palace |  | once *property* | tree rules |

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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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