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title: All the history of Greece till about 800 B.C. is a string of the fai… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the history of Greece till about 800 B.C. is a string of the fairy tales, all about Theseus and Heracles and Oedipus and Minos and Perseus is a Cabinet des Fes, a collection of fairy tales. Who acts: history, Cabinet. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, par
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 36

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All the history of Greece till about 800 B.C. is a string of the fairy tales, all about Theseus and Heracles and Oedipus and Minos and Perseus is a Cabinet des Fes, a collection of fairy tales.

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**Who acts:** history, Cabinet · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** string

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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 (history, Cabinet), 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:pg3454:1:36
# text = All the history of Greece till about 800 B.C. is a string of the fairy tales, all about Theseus and Heracles and Oedipus and Minos and Perseus is a Cabinet des Fes, a collection of fairy tales.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	800	800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
9	B.C	B.C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Oedipus	Oedipus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Minos	Minos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Perseus	Perseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
34	Fes	fe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | all history of Greece till 800  B.C | a string |  |  |  | of the fairy tales about Theseus and Heracles and Oedipus and Minos and Perseus | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a Cabinet |  |  |  |  | de *property* | 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 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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