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title: The stories in all the books are borrowed from many countries; some… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The stories in all the books are borrowed from many countries; some are French, some German, some Russian, some Italian, some Scottish, some English, one Chinese. Who acts: some. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 7

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The stories in all the books are borrowed from many countries; some are French, some German, some Russian, some Italian, some Scottish, some English, one Chinese.

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**Who acts:** some · **What happens:** borrow, be · **To what, where:** stories, many countries

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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 (some), 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:pg7277:1:7
# text = The stories in all the books are borrowed from many countries; some are French, some German, some Russian, some Italian, some Scottish, some English, one Chinese.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	appos	_	_
33	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **borrow** | present · passive |  | the stories in all books |  | many countries |  | some English *obl* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from country=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present | some |  |  |  |  | french *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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