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title: You are a good sign of my deliverance, for it was foretold me that a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You are a good sign of my deliverance, for it was foretold me that a piece of good fortune should befall me through a stork.’ Who acts: You, piece, my. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 112

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You are a good sign of my deliverance, for it was foretold me that a piece of good fortune should befall me through a stork.’

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**Who acts:** You, piece, my · **What happens:** be, foretell, befall, deliver · **To what, where:** good sign, deliverance, me

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, piece, 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:pg7277:7:112
# text = You are a good sign of my deliverance, for it was foretold me that a piece of good fortune should befall me through a stork.’
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	foretold	foretell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	befall	befall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | You | a good sign |  |  |  | of my deliverance | tree rules |
| 2 | **foretell** | past · passive |  | deliverance |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme i=Eventuality |
| 3 | **befall** | should | a piece of good fortune | me |  |  |  | through a stork | tree rules |
| 4 | **deliver** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom deliverance «act 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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