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title: To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted unt… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted untold generations of children, and will continue to delight them to the end of time. Who acts: popular fairy tales. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories., with its dependency tree and 
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 3

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To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted untold generations of children, and will continue to delight them to the end of time.

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**Who acts:** popular fairy tales · **What happens:** belong, have, continue, delight · **To what, where:** popular fairy tales, delighted untold generations, generations

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (popular fairy tales), 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:pg18442:2:3
# text = To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted untold generations of children, and will continue to delight them to the end of time.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	untold	untold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present |  | the popular fairy tales |  |  |  | to one class | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | the popular fairy tales | delighted untold generations of children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Patient |
| 3 | **continue** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **delight** | to-infinitive |  | generations *= generation* |  |  | to the end of time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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