--- title: Perhaps fortune, to make me amends for depriving me of what I though… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Perhaps fortune, to make me amends for depriving me of what I thought the greatest happiness, may have reserved a greater blessing for my comfort.” Who acts: Perhaps fortune, I, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perhaps fortune, I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:50:40 # text = Perhaps fortune, to make me amends for depriving me of what I thought the greatest happiness, may have reserved a greater blessing for my comfort.” 1 Perhaps perhaps ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 amends amend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 depriving deprive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 obl _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux _ _ 21 reserved reserve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | to-infinitive | Perhaps fortune | amends | me | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary amend=Product | | 2 | **deprive** | gerund | Perhaps fortune *not said here* | me | | | | | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Source of what=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I | the greatest happiness | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot happiness=Theme | | 4 | **reserve** | may · perfect | | a greater blessing | | | | for my comfort | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme for comfort=Beneficiary | | 5 | **comfort** | | my | | | | | | nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/41/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/)