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title: These facts help to account for the sameness of the stories everywhe… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: These facts help to account for the sameness of the stories everywhere; and the uniformity of human fancy in early societies must be the cause of many other resemblances. Who acts: facts, uniformity. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 28

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These facts help to account for the sameness of the stories everywhere; and the uniformity of human fancy in early societies must be the cause of many other resemblances.

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**Who acts:** facts, uniformity · **What happens:** help, be · **To what, where:** account, cause

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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 (facts, uniformity), 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:pg3027:1:28
# text = These facts help to account for the sameness of the stories everywhere; and the uniformity of human fancy in early societies must be the cause of many other resemblances.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sameness	sameness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	uniformity	uniformity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	societies	society	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	resemblances	resemblance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | this facts | account |  |  |  | for the sameness of the stories | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is a** | must | the uniformity of human fancy in early societies | the cause |  |  |  | of many other resemblances | 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 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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