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title: Are not your trees as full of fruit as your hives are full of bees? — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Are not your trees as full of fruit as your hives are full of bees? Who acts: trees. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 17

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Are not your trees as full of fruit as your hives are full of bees?

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**Who acts:** trees · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees), 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:pg641:13:17
# text = Are not your trees as full of fruit as your hives are full of bees?
1	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hives	hive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | your trees as full |  |  |  |  | of bees; full *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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