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title: She had but one more chance, and on breaking the last egg she found… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had but one more chance, and on breaking the last egg she found to her great delight that it contained a more marvellous thing than ever. Who acts: girl, chance. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 38

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She had but one more chance, and on breaking the last egg she found to her great delight that it contained a more marvellous thing than ever.

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**Who acts:** girl, chance · **What happens:** have, break, find, contain, delight · **To what, where:** one more chance, last egg, marvellous thing

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, chance), 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:pg7277:5:38
# text = She had but one more chance, and on breaking the last egg she found to her great delight that it contained a more marvellous thing than ever.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | girl | one more chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | gerund | girl *not said here* | the last egg |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | to girl's great delight | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **contain** | past | chance | a marvellous thing |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 5 | **delight** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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