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title: The fairy books have been almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang, who h… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairy books have been almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang, who has translated and adapted them from the French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and other languages. Who acts: Mrs.. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependen
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 23

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The fairy books have been almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang, who has translated and adapted them from the French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and other languages.

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**Who acts:** Mrs. · **What happens:** translate, adapt, work · **To what, where:** fairy books, confessions, French

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Mrs.), 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:pg3454:1:23
# text = The fairy books have been almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang, who has translated and adapted them from the French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and other languages.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Italian	Italian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Catalan	Catalan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | present · perfect · passive |  | the fairy books |  |  |  | wholly *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **adapt** | past |  | confessions *= confession* |  | the French and German and Portuguese and Italian and Spanish and Catalan |  | other languages *obl* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **work** |  | Mrs. |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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