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title: From ‘Swaheli Tales,’ by E. Steere. — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From ‘Swaheli Tales,’ by E. Steere. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 61

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From ‘Swaheli Tales,’ by E. Steere.

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg3454:22:61
# text = From ‘Swaheli Tales,’ by E. Steere.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Swaheli	Swaheli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	Steere	Steere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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