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title: But, alas! your hope that you may attain your deliverance through us… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, alas! your hope that you may attain your deliverance through us is but a vain one. Who acts: hope, your. 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 114

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But, alas! your hope that you may attain your deliverance through us is but a vain one.

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**Who acts:** hope, your · **What happens:** attain, be, hope, deliver · **To what, where:** deliverance, vain one

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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 (hope, your), 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:pg7277:7:114
# text = But, alas! your hope that you may attain your deliverance through us is but a vain one.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attain** | may | your hope | your deliverance |  |  |  | through us | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deliverance=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | your hope | a vain one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hope** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **deliver** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | 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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