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title: Some of the tales here, like The Half-Chick, are for very little chi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the tales here, like The Half-Chick, are for very little children; others for older ones. Who acts: tales. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 26

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Some of the tales here, like The Half-Chick, are for very little children; others for older ones.

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

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green 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 (tales), 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:pg7277:1:26
# text = Some of the tales here, like The Half-Chick, are for very little children; others for older ones.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Half	Half	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Chick	Chick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | some tales |  |  |  |  | for little children and others for older ones | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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