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title: It has been altered, and is really much more horrid in the language… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It has been altered, and is really much more horrid in the language of the Danes, who, as history tells us, were not a nervous or timid people. Who acts: Danes. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 12

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It has been altered, and is really much more horrid in the language of the Danes, who, as history tells us, were not a nervous or timid people.

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**Who acts:** Danes · **What happens:** alter, be, tell, not be · **To what, where:** Chest, language, us, nervous people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink 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 (Danes), 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:pg5615:1:12
# text = It has been altered, and is really much more horrid in the language of the Danes, who, as history tells us, were not a nervous or timid people.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Danes	Dane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alter** | present · perfect · passive |  | Chest |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the language of the Danes |  | horrid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Danes |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | past |  | a nervous people |  |  |  |  | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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