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title: These Fairy Books, however, are not written by the Editor, as he has… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: These Fairy Books, however, are not written by the Editor, as he has often explained, 'out of his own head.' Who acts: Editor, author. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 12

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These Fairy Books, however, are not written by the Editor, as he has often explained, 'out of his own head.'

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**Who acts:** Editor, author · **What happens:** not write, explain · **To what, where:** Fairy Books

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Editor, 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:pg3027:1:12
# text = These Fairy Books, however, are not written by the Editor, as he has often explained, 'out of his own head.'
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **write** | present · passive | the Editor | this Fairy Books |  |  |  | however *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | author |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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