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title: But there are good stories enough left, and it is hoped that some in… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But there are good stories enough left, and it is hoped that some in the Red Fairy Book may have the attraction of being less familiar than many of the old friends. Who acts: good stories, some, attraction. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Opening, sentence 9

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But there are good stories enough left, and it is hoped that some in the Red Fairy Book may have the attraction of being less familiar than many of the old friends.

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**Who acts:** good stories, some, attraction · **What happens:** be, leave, hope, have · **To what, where:** STORY, attraction

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good stories, some, attraction), 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:pg540:1:9
# text = But there are good stories enough left, and it is hoped that some in the Red Fairy Book may have the attraction of being less familiar than many of the old friends.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	hoped	hope	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
18	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	attraction	attraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
26	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | good stories *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past | good stories |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hope** | present · passive |  | STORY |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | may | some | the attraction |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attraction=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | the attraction *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than many of the old friends; familiar, less *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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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