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title: ‘No,’ said Aina, ‘but there is certainly some good fairy living amon… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No,’ said Aina, ‘but there is certainly some good fairy living among these raspberry bushes. Who acts: Aina, good fairy. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 9

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‘No,’ said Aina, ‘but there is certainly some good fairy living among these raspberry bushes.

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**Who acts:** Aina, good fairy · **What happens:** say, be, live · **To what, where:** good fairy, raspberry bushes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aina, good fairy), 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:pg3454:25:9
# text = ‘No,’ said Aina, ‘but there is certainly some good fairy living among these raspberry bushes.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
6	Aina	Aina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aina |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | some good fairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | some good fairy *not said here* |  |  | this raspberry bushes |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bush=Location |

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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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