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title: The author has on other occasions seized the opportunity to emphasiz… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 98

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The author has on other occasions seized the opportunity to emphasize the fact that fairy tales and fables are really necessary to the child, who, without them, is being defrauded of that which belongs to him.

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**Who acts:** author, fairy tales · **What happens:** have, seize, emphasize, be, defraud, belong · **To what, where:** opportunity, other occasions, fact, Author

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, 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 (author, fairy tales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:1:104
# text = The author has on other occasions seized the opportunity to emphasize the fact that fairy tales and fables are really necessary to the child, who, without them, is being defrauded of that which belongs to him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
7	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	emphasize	emphasize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	defrauded	defraud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	obl	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the author |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seize** | past |  | the opportunity |  | other occasions |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
| 3 | **emphasize** | to-infinitive |  | the fact |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | fairy tales and fables | the fact *not said here* |  |  |  | to the child; necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **defraud** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of that | vn cheat-10.6.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **belong** | present |  |  | Author |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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