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title: I take this opportunity of recommending these fairy books--poor thin… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I take this opportunity of recommending these fairy books--poor things, but my own--to parents and guardians who may never have heard of them. Who acts: I, opportunity, parents. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 18

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I take this opportunity of recommending these fairy books--poor things, but my own--to parents and guardians who may never have heard of them.

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**Who acts:** I, opportunity, parents · **What happens:** take, recommend, not hear · **To what, where:** opportunity, fairy books

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, opportunity, parents), 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:pg3454:1:18
# text = I take this opportunity of recommending these fairy books--poor things, but my own--to parents and guardians who may never have heard of them.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	recommending	recommend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | I | this opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
| 2 | **recommend** | gerund | this opportunity *not said here* | this fairy books and poor things |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hear** | may · perfect | parents and guardians |  |  |  |  | of guardians *= guardian* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=Stimulus |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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