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title: (Marchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis. — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: (Marchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 215

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(Marchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis.

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. 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:pg641:41:215
# text = (Marchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Marchen	Marchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	und	und	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	Gedichte	gedichte	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	aus	au	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	Stadt	Stadt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
8	Tripolis	Tripolis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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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