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title: THE NIXY(15) — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: THE NIXY(15) A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 70

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THE NIXY(15)

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2. 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:pg640:20:70
# text = THE NIXY(15)
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	NIXY	NIXY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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