The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 15

A French gentleman, too, an educationist and expert in portraits of Queen Mary, once sent me a newspaper article in which he had written that I was exclusively devoted to the composition of fairy books, and nothing else.

Who acts: French gentleman, nymph · What happens: send, write, devote, portray · To what, where: newspaper article, me, I, composition, Queen Mary

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (French gentleman, nymph), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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