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title: For every child should understand That letters from the first were p… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For every child should understand That letters from the first were planned To guide us into Fairy Land 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 3

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For every child should understand That letters from the first were planned To guide us into Fairy Land

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**What happens:** understand, plan, guide · **To what, where:** letters, first, us, Fairy Land

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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:pg640:2:3
# text = For every child should understand That letters from the first were planned To guide us into Fairy Land
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	understand	understand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	planned	plan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
13	To	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | should |  | that letters |  |  |  | for every child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus |
| 2 | **plan** | past · passive |  | the first |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **guide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | us |  | Fairy Land |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme into land=Destination |

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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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