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title: For this reason ‘The Grey True Ghost-Story Book’ is never likely to… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For this reason ‘The Grey True Ghost-Story Book’ is never likely to be illustrated by Mr. Ford. Who acts: Ford. 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 61

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For this reason ‘The Grey True Ghost-Story Book’ is never likely to be illustrated by Mr. Ford.

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**Who acts:** Ford · **What happens:** not be, illustrate

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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 (Ford), 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:pg3454:1:61
# text = For this reason ‘The Grey True Ghost-Story Book’ is never likely to be illustrated by Mr. Ford.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
6	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
7	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	Ghost	Ghost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for this reason; likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **illustrate** | to-infinitive · passive | Ford  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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