The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 37

I shall take my treasures home, and perhaps some day I may find a man who knows how to make the best of the chances that are given to him.

Who acts: I, man, my · What happens: take, find, know, make, give, treasure · To what, where: treasures, man, best, chances · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 treasures	nmod:poss
5	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 take	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	3 take	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 find	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 find	cc
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 find	advmod
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obl:unmarked
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 find	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 knows	nsubj
18	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 man	acl:relcl
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 make	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knows	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 best	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 make	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 chances	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 chances	det
26	chances	chance	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 best	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 given	nsubj:pass
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 given	aux:pass
29	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 chances	acl:relcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 given	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	shall	I	my treasures			home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
2	find	may	I	a man		day	perhaps property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	know	present	a man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	make	to-infinitive		the best				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product
5	give	present · passive		the chances	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient
6	treasure		my					nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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