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title: It is lucky for you that the serpent-king’s feast happens to fall th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It is lucky for you that the serpent-king’s feast happens to fall this year, otherwise you would have had long to wait for it. Who acts: bowl, feast, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 13

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It is lucky for you that the serpent-king’s feast happens to fall this year, otherwise you would have had long to wait for it.

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**Who acts:** bowl, feast, you · **What happens:** be, happen, fall, have, wait

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bowl, feast, you), 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:pg641:34:13
# text = It is lucky for you that the serpent-king’s feast happens to fall this year, otherwise you would have had long to wait for it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | bowl |  |  |  |  | for you; lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | present | the serpent king's feast |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | to-infinitive | the serpent king's feast *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | would · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wait** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for bowl; long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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