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title: Upon my word, if I could be sure of finding some one every day whose… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon my word, if I could be sure of finding some one every day whose head was as soft as his heart, I wouldn’t wish for a more agreeable life myself! Who acts: I, head, my. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 95

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Upon my word, if I could be sure of finding some one every day whose head was as soft as his heart, I wouldn’t wish for a more agreeable life myself!

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**Who acts:** I, head, my · **What happens:** be, find, not wish, word · **To what, where:** one, myself

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, head, my), 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:pg7277:12:95
# text = Upon my word, if I could be sure of finding some one every day whose head was as soft as his heart, I wouldn’t wish for a more agreeable life myself!
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | I |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | I *not said here* | some one |  |  | day |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | head |  |  |  |  | as money's heart; soft *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **wish** | would | I | myself |  |  |  | upon my word; for a agreeable life | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for life=Theme |
| 5 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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