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title: Some of the most interesting are from the Roumanion, and three were… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the most interesting are from the Roumanion, and three were previously published in the late Dr. Steere’s ‘Swahili Tales.’ Who acts: Some, Roumanion, late Steere. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 29

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Some of the most interesting are from the Roumanion, and three were previously published in the late Dr. Steere’s ‘Swahili Tales.’

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**Who acts:** Some, Roumanion, late Steere · **What happens:** be, publish, tell · **To what, where:** Roumanion, three, Swahili Tales · **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 (Some, Roumanion, late Steere), 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:pg641:1:29
# text = Some of the most interesting are from the Roumanion, and three were previously published in the late Dr. Steere’s ‘Swahili Tales.’
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Roumanion	Roumanion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Steere	Steere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Swahili	swahili	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Some |  |  | the Roumanion |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **publish** | past · passive | the Roumanion *not said here* | three |  | the late Steere  Dr.'s Swahili Tales |  | previously *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **tell** |  | the late Steere  Dr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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