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title: The Editor’s business is to hunt for collections of these stories to… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Editor’s business is to hunt for collections of these stories told by peasant or savage grandmothers in many climes, from New Caledonia to Zululand; from the frozen snows of the Polar regions to Greece, or Spain, or Italy, or far Lochaber. Who acts: business, Polar regions. A sentence of «The Cr
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 7

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The Editor’s business is to hunt for collections of these stories told by peasant or savage grandmothers in many climes, from New Caledonia to Zululand; from the frozen snows of the Polar regions to Greece, or Spain, or Italy, or far Lochaber.

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**Who acts:** business, Polar regions · **What happens:** be, tell, freeze, snow · **To what, where:** New Caledonia, stories · **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 (business, Polar regions), 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:pg2435:1:7
# text = The Editor’s business is to hunt for collections of these stories told by peasant or savage grandmothers in many climes, from New Caledonia to Zululand; from the frozen snows of the Polar regions to Greece, or Spain, or Italy, or far Lochaber.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	grandmothers	grandmother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:agent	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	climes	clime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Caledonia	Caledonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Zululand	Zululand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	snows	snow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
48	Lochaber	Lochaber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Editor's business |  |  | New Caledonia to Zululand |  | for collections of this stories; hunt *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | this stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **snow** |  | the Polar regions to Greece |  |  |  |  |  | nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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