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title: A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will fi… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book, if he examines and compares. Who acts: child, Moses. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 8

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A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book, if he examines and compares.

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**Who acts:** child, Moses · **What happens:** read, find, examine, compare · **To what, where:** Blue Fairy Books, old friends, Pink Fairy Book

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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 (child, Moses), 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:pg5615:1:8
# text = A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book, if he examines and compares.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
7	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Pink	Pink	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	examines	examine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	compares	compare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present · perfect | a child | the Blue Fairy Books |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | future | a child | some old friends |  | the Pink Fairy Book |  | with new faces | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |
| 3 | **examine** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Moses |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **compare** | present | Moses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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