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title: It is in your power to avail yourself of the favorable opportunity w… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: It is in your power to avail yourself of the favorable opportunity which presents itself to make you happy.” Who acts: sight, favorable opportunity. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 45

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It is in your power to avail yourself of the favorable opportunity which presents itself to make you happy.”

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**Who acts:** sight, favorable opportunity · **What happens:** be, avail, present, make · **To what, where:** power, yourself, sight, you

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, favorable opportunity), 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:pg65965:12:45
# text = It is in your power to avail yourself of the favorable opportunity which presents itself to make you happy.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	avail	avail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	favorable	favorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	presents	present	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | sight |  |  | your power |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **avail** | to-infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  | of the favorable opportunity | tree rules |
| 3 | **present** | present | the favorable opportunity | sight |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | the favorable opportunity *not said here* | you |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

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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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