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title: But, in the Yellow Fairy Book, and the rest, are many tales by perso… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, in the Yellow Fairy Book, and the rest, are many tales by persons who are neither savages nor rustics, such as Madame D’Aulnoy and Herr Hans Christian Andersen. Who acts: rest, persons. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 23

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But, in the Yellow Fairy Book, and the rest, are many tales by persons who are neither savages nor rustics, such as Madame D’Aulnoy and Herr Hans Christian Andersen.

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**Who acts:** rest, persons · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** many tales, neither savages

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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 (rest, persons), 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:pg640:2:23
# text = But, in the Yellow Fairy Book, and the rest, are many tales by persons who are neither savages nor rustics, such as Madame D’Aulnoy and Herr Hans Christian Andersen.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	neither	neith	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	savages	savage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
23	rustics	rustic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	Madame	Madame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
28	D’Aulnoy	D'Aulnoy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Herr	Herr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	_	33	flat	_	_
33	Andersen	Andersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 rest | many tales |  |  |  | by persons | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | persons | neither savages nor rustics |  |  |  |  | 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 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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