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title: But children remain unaware of the facts, and so do their dear mothe… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But children remain unaware of the facts, and so do their dear mothers; whence the Editor infers that they do not read his prefaces, and are not members of the Folk Lore Society, or students of Herr Kohler and M. Cosquin, and M. Henri Guidoz and Professor Child, and Mr. Max Muller. Who acts: childre
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 14

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But children remain unaware of the facts, and so do their dear mothers; whence the Editor infers that they do not read his prefaces, and are not members of the Folk Lore Society, or students of Herr Kohler and M. Cosquin, and M. Henri Guidoz and Professor Child, and Mr. Max Muller.

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**Who acts:** children, Editor · **What happens:** remain, do, infer, not read, not be, preface · **To what, where:** unaware, dear mothers, prefaces, members

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, Editor), 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:pg2435:1:14
# text = But children remain unaware of the facts, and so do their dear mothers; whence the Editor infers that they do not read his prefaces, and are not members of the Folk Lore Society, or students of Herr Kohler and M. Cosquin, and M. Henri Guidoz and Professor Child, and Mr. Max Muller.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unaware	unaware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	infers	infer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	prefaces	preface	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	advcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	parataxis	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	Herr	Herr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Kohler	Kohler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
48	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
49	Henri	Henri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	Guidoz	Guidoz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
53	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod:desc	_	_
57	Max	Max	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	Muller	Muller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | children | unaware of the facts |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme unaware=Attribute |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | children *not said here* | children's dear mothers |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality |
| 3 | **infer** | present | the Editor |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **read** | present · do-support | children *= child* | Editor's prefaces |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preface=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | the Editor *not said here* | members |  |  |  | of the Folk Lore Society | tree rules |
| 6 | **preface** |  | Editor |  |  |  |  |  | nom preface «communication 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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