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title: Contes Populaires Slaves, traduits par Louis Leger. — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Contes Populaires Slaves, traduits par Louis Leger. Who acts: Contes Slaves. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 83

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Contes Populaires Slaves, traduits par Louis Leger.

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**Who acts:** Contes Slaves · **What happens:** par · **To what, where:** Louis

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Contes Slaves), 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:pg5615:15:83
# text = Contes Populaires Slaves, traduits par Louis Leger.
1	Contes	Contes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	Populaires	Populaires	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Slaves	Slave	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	traduits	traduit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	par	par	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Leger	Leger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **par** | present | Contes Slaves | Louis |  |  |  |  | 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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