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title: The longest tales, like Heart of Ice, were not invented when the oth… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The longest tales, like Heart of Ice, were not invented when the others were, but were written in French, by clever men and women, such as Madame d’Aulnoy, and the Count de Caylus, about two hundred years ago. Who acts: clever men. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 27

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The longest tales, like Heart of Ice, were not invented when the others were, but were written in French, by clever men and women, such as Madame d’Aulnoy, and the Count de Caylus, about two hundred years ago.

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**Who acts:** clever men · **What happens:** not invent, write · **To what, where:** longest tales, others, French

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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 (clever men), 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:pg7277:1:27
# text = The longest tales, like Heart of Ice, were not invented when the others were, but were written in French, by clever men and women, such as Madame d’Aulnoy, and the Count de Caylus, about two hundred years ago.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Heart	Heart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	French	French	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	33	case	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	Madame	Madame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	d’Aulnoy	d'aulnoy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	_
39	Caylus	Caylus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	about	about	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	compound	_	_
43	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl:unmarked	_	_
45	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **invent** | past · passive | clever men and women and Madame d’Aulnoy | the longest tales like Heart of Ice |  |  |  | the Count Caylus *obl*; ago *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 2 | **write** | past · passive |  | the others |  | French |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in french=Destination |

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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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