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title: But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fa… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. Who acts: five authors, three hundred. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 44

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But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome.

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**Who acts:** five authors, three hundred · **What happens:** try, write, be · **To what, where:** new fairy tales

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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 (five authors, three hundred), 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:pg3454:1:44
# text = But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	authors	author	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present | five authors |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **write** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | five authors *not said here* | new fairy tales |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the three hundred |  |  |  |  | tiresome *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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