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title: Of the stories in this book, Miss Blackley translated ‘Dwarf Long No… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Of the stories in this book, Miss Blackley translated ‘Dwarf Long Nose,’ ‘The Wonderful Beggars,’ ‘The Lute Player,’ ‘Two in a Sack,’ and ‘The Fish that swam in the Air.’ Who acts: Miss, Fish. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 26

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Of the stories in this book, Miss Blackley translated ‘Dwarf Long Nose,’ ‘The Wonderful Beggars,’ ‘The Lute Player,’ ‘Two in a Sack,’ and ‘The Fish that swam in the Air.’

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**Who acts:** Miss, Fish · **What happens:** translate, swim · **To what, where:** Dwarf Long Nose, Air

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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 (Miss, Fish), 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:pg641:1:26
# text = Of the stories in this book, Miss Blackley translated ‘Dwarf Long Nose,’ ‘The Wonderful Beggars,’ ‘The Lute Player,’ ‘Two in a Sack,’ and ‘The Fish that swam in the Air.’
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Blackley	Blackley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	translated	translate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Beggars	Beggar	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Lute	Lute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Player	Player	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Air	Air	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | past | Miss | Dwarf Long Nose |  |  |  | of the stories in this book | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim** | past | the Fish |  |  | the Air |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory |

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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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