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title: For these reasons, the Editor thinks that there are certainly fairie… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For these reasons, the Editor thinks that there are certainly fairies, but they never do anyone any harm; and, in England, they have been frightened away by smoke and schoolmasters. Who acts: Editor, fairies, smoke. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, with 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 33

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For these reasons, the Editor thinks that there are certainly fairies, but they never do anyone any harm; and, in England, they have been frightened away by smoke and schoolmasters.

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**Who acts:** Editor, fairies, smoke · **What happens:** think, be, not do, frighten away · **To what, where:** anyone, Fairies, England · **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 (Editor, fairies, smoke), 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:pg640:2:33
# text = For these reasons, the Editor thinks that there are certainly fairies, but they never do anyone any harm; and, in England, they have been frightened away by smoke and schoolmasters.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Editor	Editor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
31	away	away	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	schoolmasters	schoolmaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the Editor |  |  |  |  | for this reasons | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | fairies |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **do** | present | Fairies *= fairy* | anyone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **frighten away** | present · perfect · passive | smoke and schoolmasters | Fairies *= fairy* |  | England |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |

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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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