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title: The Lapps are a people not fond of soap and water, and very much giv… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lapps are a people not fond of soap and water, and very much given to art magic. Who acts: Lapps. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 17

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The Lapps are a people not fond of soap and water, and very much given to art magic.

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**Who acts:** Lapps · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** people, art magic

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown 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 (Lapps), 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:pg3282:1:17
# text = The Lapps are a people not fond of soap and water, and very much given to art magic.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lapps	lapp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Lapps | a people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | a people *not said here* | art magic |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to magic=Recipient |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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