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title: But nothing will prevent children from thinking that I invented the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But nothing will prevent children from thinking that I invented the stories, or some ladies from being of the same opinion. Who acts: nothing, I. 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 23

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But nothing will prevent children from thinking that I invented the stories, or some ladies from being of the same opinion.

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**Who acts:** nothing, I · **What happens:** prevent, think, invent, be · **To what, where:** children, stories, same opinion · **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 (nothing, I), 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:pg641:1:23
# text = But nothing will prevent children from thinking that I invented the stories, or some ladies from being of the same opinion.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | future | nothing | children |  |  |  | some ladies *obl* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer child=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **invent** | past | I | the stories |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | the same opinion |  |  | 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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