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title: Contes populaires des Bassoutos. — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Contes populaires des Bassoutos. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 109

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Contes populaires des Bassoutos.

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg5615:34:109
# text = Contes populaires des Bassoutos.
1	Contes	conte	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	populaires	populaire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	des	des	X	FW	_	2	flat:foreign	_	_
4	Bassoutos	Bassouto	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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