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title: Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introdu… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introductions are inevitably both monotonous and unavailing. Who acts: Fairy, introductions. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 4

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Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introductions are inevitably both monotonous and unavailing.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, introductions · **What happens:** demand, be · **To what, where:** preface, Editor

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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 (Fairy, introductions), 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:pg2435:1:4
# text = Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introductions are inevitably both monotonous and unavailing.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	demands	demand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	preface	preface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	introductions	introduction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	inevitably	inevitably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	monotonous	monotonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	unavailing	unavailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | present | each Fairy | a preface |  | the Editor |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Theme preface=Precondition from editor=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present | this introductions |  |  |  |  | inevitably, monotonous *property* | 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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