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title: The truth is that the Folk Lore Society--made up of the most clever,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The truth is that the Folk Lore Society--made up of the most clever, learned, and beautiful men and women of the country--is fond of studying the history and geography of Fairy Land. Who acts: truth, beautiful men. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with i
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 19

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The truth is that the Folk Lore Society--made up of the most clever, learned, and beautiful men and women of the country--is fond of studying the history and geography of Fairy Land.

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**Who acts:** truth, beautiful men · **What happens:** be, make up, learn, study · **To what, where:** Lore Society, history · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (truth, beautiful men), 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:pg640:2:19
# text = The truth is that the Folk Lore Society--made up of the most clever, learned, and beautiful men and women of the country--is fond of studying the history and geography of Fairy Land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	studying	study	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the truth | the Lore Society |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make up** | participle |  | the Lore Society *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **learn** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | beautiful men and women of the country |  |  |  |  | fond *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **study** | gerund | beautiful men and women of the country *not said here* | the history and geography of Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Topic |

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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 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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