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title: (From Ehstnische Marchen.) — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: (From Ehstnische Marchen.) A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 186

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(From Ehstnische Marchen.)

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg641:2:186
# text = (From Ehstnische Marchen.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Ehstnische	Ehstnische	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Marchen	Marchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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