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title: The Folk Lore Society, or its president, say that THEIR tales are no… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Folk Lore Society, or its president, say that THEIR tales are not so true as the rest, and should not be published with the rest. Who acts: Lore Society, tales, rustics. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 24

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The Folk Lore Society, or its president, say that THEIR tales are not so true as the rest, and should not be published with the rest.

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**Who acts:** Lore Society, tales, rustics · **What happens:** say, not be, not publish, tell · **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 (Lore Society, tales, rustics), 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:pg640:2:24
# text = The Folk Lore Society, or its president, say that THEIR tales are not so true as the rest, and should not be published with the rest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	president	president	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	THEIR	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the Lore Society |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | rustics's tales |  |  |  |  | as the rest; true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **publish** | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with the rest | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **tell** |  | rustics *= rustic* |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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