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title: Anybody who has the curiosity to read the ‘Legendary Australian Tale… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Anybody who has the curiosity to read the ‘Legendary Australian Tales,’ which Mrs. Langloh Parker has collected from the lips of the Australian savages, will find that these tales are closely akin to our own. Who acts: Anybody, tales. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 13

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Anybody who has the curiosity to read the ‘Legendary Australian Tales,’ which Mrs. Langloh Parker has collected from the lips of the Australian savages, will find that these tales are closely akin to our own.

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**Who acts:** Anybody, tales · **What happens:** have, read, collect, find, be · **To what, where:** curiosity, Legendary Australian Tales, Mrs., lips · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Anybody, tales), 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:pg641:1:13
# text = Anybody who has the curiosity to read the ‘Legendary Australian Tales,’ which Mrs. Langloh Parker has collected from the lips of the Australian savages, will find that these tales are closely akin to our own.
1	Anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
16	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	Langloh	Langloh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	Parker	Parker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	savages	savage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	akin	akin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	ccomp	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | the curiosity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient |
| 2 | **read** | to-infinitive |  | the Legendary Australian Tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic |
| 3 | **collect** | present · perfect · passive |  | Mrs. |  | the lips of the Australian savages |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | future | Anybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | this tales |  |  |  |  | to our own; akin, closely *property* | tree rules |

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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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