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title: However much these nations differ about trifles, they all agree in l… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However much these nations differ about trifles, they all agree in liking fairy tales. Who acts: much nations, nations. 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 8

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However much these nations differ about trifles, they all agree in liking fairy tales.

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**Who acts:** much nations, nations · **What happens:** differ, agree, like · **To what, where:** fairy tales

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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 (much nations, nations), 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:pg7277:1:8
# text = However much these nations differ about trifles, they all agree in liking fairy tales.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trifles	trifle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
11	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	liking	like	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **differ** | present | this much nations |  |  |  |  | about trifles | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about trifle=Topic |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | nations *= nation* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **like** | gerund | nations *= nation* *not said here* | fairy tales |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme |

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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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