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title: Books Yellow, Red, and Green and Blue, All true, or just as good as… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Books Yellow, Red, and Green and Blue, All true, or just as good as true, And here’s the Yellow Book for YOU! A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 1

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Books Yellow, Red, and Green and Blue, All true, or just as good as true, And here’s the Yellow Book for YOU!

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. 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:pg640:2:1
# text = Books Yellow, Red, and Green and Blue, All true, or just as good as true, And here’s the Yellow Book for YOU!
1	Books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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