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title: The Fowler thought that this would be a favourable opportunity for o… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fowler thought that this would be a favourable opportunity for offering him the marvellous bird, which he felt certain he would buy the instant he saw it. Who acts: Fowler, this, favourable opportunity, marvellous bird. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, wit
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 45

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The Fowler thought that this would be a favourable opportunity for offering him the marvellous bird, which he felt certain he would buy the instant he saw it.

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**Who acts:** Fowler, this, favourable opportunity, marvellous bird · **What happens:** think, be, offer, feel, buy, see · **To what, where:** favourable opportunity, marvellous bird, Fowler, instant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fowler, this, favourable opportunity, marvellous bird), 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:pg7277:9:45
# text = The Fowler thought that this would be a favourable opportunity for offering him the marvellous bird, which he felt certain he would buy the instant he saw it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Fowler |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | would | this | a favourable opportunity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **offer** | gerund | a favourable opportunity *not said here* | the marvellous bird | Fowler |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal bird=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | past | the marvellous bird |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **buy** | would | Fowler | the instant |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instant=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | past | Fowler | instant |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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