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title: Most fairy stories not only amuse, but their unfolding shows the chi… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Most fairy stories not only amuse, but their unfolding shows the child that good invariably triumphs over evil, and the moral is that one who is kind, polite, generous, unselfish and brave wins in the end. Who acts: Most fairy stories, unfolding, moral, Stories. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; S
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 100

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Most fairy stories not only amuse, but their unfolding shows the child that good invariably triumphs over evil, and the moral is that one who is kind, polite, generous, unselfish and brave wins in the end.

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**Who acts:** Most fairy stories, unfolding, moral, Stories · **What happens:** not amuse, show, be, unfold · **To what, where:** triumphs, child, evil, one, end

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most fairy stories, unfolding, moral, Stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:1:106
# text = Most fairy stories not only amuse, but their unfolding shows the child that good invariably triumphs over evil, and the moral is that one who is kind, polite, generous, unselfish and brave wins in the end.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	unfolding	unfolding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	triumphs	triumph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	parataxis	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	unselfish	unselfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	wins	win	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **amuse** | infinitive | Most fairy stories |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **show** | present | Stories's unfolding | triumphs | the child | evil |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient triumph=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the moral | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; kind *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  | in the end | brave wins *conj* | tree rules |
| 8 | **unfold** |  | Stories *= story* |  |  |  |  |  | nom unfolding «process 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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