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title: Many tales in this book are translated, or adapted, from those told… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Many tales in this book are translated, or adapted, from those told by mothers and nurses in Hungary; others are familiar to Russian nurseries; the Servians are responsible for some; a rather peculiarly fanciful set of stories are adapted from the Roumanians; others are from the Baltic shores; other
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 16

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Many tales in this book are translated, or adapted, from those told by mothers and nurses in Hungary; others are familiar to Russian nurseries; the Servians are responsible for some; a rather peculiarly fanciful set of stories are adapted from the Roumanians; others are from the Baltic shores; others from sunny Sicily; a few are from Finland, and Iceland, and Japan, and Tunis, and Portugal.

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**Who acts:** Finland, mothers, others, Servians, few · **What happens:** translate, adapt, tell, be · **To what, where:** Many tales, those, peculiarly fanciful set, Roumanians, Baltic shores, Finland · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Finland, mothers, others, Servians), 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:pg2435:1:16
# text = Many tales in this book are translated, or adapted, from those told by mothers and nurses in Hungary; others are familiar to Russian nurseries; the Servians are responsible for some; a rather peculiarly fanciful set of stories are adapted from the Roumanians; others are from the Baltic shores; others from sunny Sicily; a few are from Finland, and Iceland, and Japan, and Tunis, and Portugal.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	nurses	nurse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Servians	Servian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	fanciful	fanciful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Roumanians	Roumanian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
49	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
50	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	Baltic	baltic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
56	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
57	from	from	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	65	punct	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	nsubj	_	_
63	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	65	cop	_	_
64	from	from	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
68	Iceland	Iceland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
71	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
73	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	74	cc	_	_
74	Tunis	Tunis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	77	punct	_	_
76	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	77	cc	_	_
77	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | present · passive | Finland and Iceland and Japan and Tunis | Many tales in this book |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **adapt** | participle | Finland and Iceland and Japan and Tunis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle · passive | mothers in Hungary and nurses | those |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | others |  |  |  |  | to Russian nurseries; familiar *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | the Servians |  |  |  |  | for some; responsible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **adapt** | present · passive |  | a peculiarly fanciful set of stories |  | the Roumanians |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | present | others |  |  | the Baltic shores |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | present | a few |  |  | Finland and Iceland and Japan and Tunis |  |  | tree rules |

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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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