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title: He is then obliged to explain that he has NOT written the Fairy Book… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He is then obliged to explain that he has NOT written the Fairy Books, but, save these, has written almost everything else, except hymns, sermons, and dramatic works. Who acts: Editor. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 7

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He is then obliged to explain that he has NOT written the Fairy Books, but, save these, has written almost everything else, except hymns, sermons, and dramatic works.

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**Who acts:** Editor · **What happens:** oblige, explain, not write, save, write · **To what, where:** Editor, Fairy Books, these, everything · **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 (Editor), 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:pg641:1:7
# text = He is then obliged to explain that he has NOT written the Fairy Books, but, save these, has written almost everything else, except hymns, sermons, and dramatic works.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Books	Book	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
19	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
23	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obj	_	_
25	else	else	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	except	except	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hymns	hymn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	sermons	sermon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | present · passive |  | Editor |  |  | then | dramatic works *obl* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **write** | present · perfect | Editor | the Fairy Books |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 4 | **save** | infinitive |  | these |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 5 | **write** | present · perfect |  | everything |  |  |  | except hymns and sermons | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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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