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title: The stories are full of the oldest ideas of ages when science did no… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The stories are full of the oldest ideas of ages when science did not exist, and magic took the place of science. Who acts: stories, science, magic. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 12

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The stories are full of the oldest ideas of ages when science did not exist, and magic took the place of science.

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**Who acts:** stories, science, magic · **What happens:** be, not exist, take · **To what, where:** place

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, science, magic), 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:pg641:1:12
# text = The stories are full of the oldest ideas of ages when science did not exist, and magic took the place of science.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
12	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the stories |  |  |  |  | of the oldest ideas of ages; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **exist** | past · do-support | science |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | magic | the place of science |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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