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title: A sense of literary honesty compels the Editor to keep repeating tha… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A sense of literary honesty compels the Editor to keep repeating that he is the Editor, and not the author of the Fairy Tales, just as a distinguished man of science is only the Editor, not the Author of Nature. Who acts: sense, author. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crim
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 5

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A sense of literary honesty compels the Editor to keep repeating that he is the Editor, and not the author of the Fairy Tales, just as a distinguished man of science is only the Editor, not the Author of Nature.

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**Who acts:** sense, author · **What happens:** compel, keep, repeat, be, sense · **To what, where:** Editor, literary honesty

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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 (sense, author), 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:pg2435:1:5
# text = A sense of literary honesty compels the Editor to keep repeating that he is the Editor, and not the author of the Fairy Tales, just as a distinguished man of science is only the Editor, not the Author of Nature.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	compels	compel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	repeating	repeat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	only	only	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Nature	Nature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compel** | present | a sense of literary honesty | the Editor |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent editor=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a sense of literary honesty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **repeat** | gerund | a sense of literary honesty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | present | sense | the Editor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the author of the Fairy Tales | the Editor and the Author of Nature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sense** |  |  | literary honesty |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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