--- title: The children who read fairy books, or have fairy books read to them,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The children who read fairy books, or have fairy books read to them, do not read prefaces, and the parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, who give fairy books to their daughters, nieces, and cousines, leave prefaces unread. Who acts: children, parents. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/) / 5 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 5 The children who read fairy books, or have fairy books read to them, do not read prefaces, and the parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, who give fairy books to their daughters, nieces, and cousines, leave prefaces unread. **Who acts:** children, parents · **What happens:** read, have, not read, give, leave · **To what, where:** fairy books, books, prefaces, daughters 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 (children, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:1:5 # text = The children who read fairy books, or have fairy books read to them, do not read prefaces, and the parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, who give fairy books to their daughters, nieces, and cousines, leave prefaces unread. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 19 prefaces preface NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 aunts aunt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 uncles uncle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 34 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 nieces niece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 cousines cousine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 45 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 46 prefaces preface NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 47 unread unread ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present | the children | fairy books | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | the children *not said here* | fairy books | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient | | 3 | **read** | present | the children | | books *= book* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **read** | infinitive · do-support | the children *not said here* | prefaces | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preface=Topic | | 5 | **give** | present | the parents and aunts and uncles and cousins and cousines | fairy books | parents's daughters and nieces | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent book=Theme to daughter=Recipient | | 6 | **leave** | infinitive | the parents and aunts and uncles and cousins and cousines | prefaces | | | | unread *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preface=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/6/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/)