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title: In the fairy tales of no country are 'improper' incidents common, wh… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the fairy tales of no country are 'improper' incidents common, which is to the credit of human nature, as they were obviously composed mainly for children. Who acts: country. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 19

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In the fairy tales of no country are 'improper' incidents common, which is to the credit of human nature, as they were obviously composed mainly for children.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** be, compose, tell · **To what, where:** improper, fairy tales, incidents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (country), 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:pg3027:1:19
# text = In the fairy tales of no country are 'improper' incidents common, which is to the credit of human nature, as they were obviously composed mainly for children.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	improper	improper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
29	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | improper |  | the fairy tales of no country |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the credit; of human nature | tree rules |
| 3 | **compose** | past · passive |  | incidents *= incident* |  |  |  | for children; mainly, obviously *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for child=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **tell** |  | no country |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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 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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