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title: The reputation of having written all the fairy books (an European re… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The reputation of having written all the fairy books (an European reputation in nurseries and the United States of America) is ‘the burden of an honour unto which I was not born.’ Who acts: reputation. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, with its depend
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 29

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The reputation of having written all the fairy books (an European reputation in nurseries and the United States of America) is ‘the burden of an honour unto which I was not born.’

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**Who acts:** reputation · **What happens:** have, write, be, not bear · **To what, where:** written fairy books, burden, I

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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 (reputation), 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:pg3454:1:29
# text = The reputation of having written all the fairy books (an European reputation in nurseries and the United States of America) is ‘the burden of an honour unto which I was not born.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the reputation *not said here* | all written fairy books |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the reputation | the burden |  |  |  | of a honour | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **bear** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | unto a honour | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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