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title: But turkeys and chickens are creatures who don’t like people that ar… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But turkeys and chickens are creatures who don’t like people that are not as themselves. Who acts: turkeys, creatures, that. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 68

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But turkeys and chickens are creatures who don’t like people that are not as themselves.

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**Who acts:** turkeys, creatures, that · **What happens:** be, not do, not be · **To what, where:** creatures

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turkeys, creatures, that), 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:pg540:31:68
# text = But turkeys and chickens are creatures who don’t like people that are not as themselves.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	turkeys	turkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | turkeys and chickens | creatures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **do** | present | creatures |  |  |  |  | like people | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | as turkeys *= turkey* | 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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