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title: 411-13, denies the Eastern origin of the _fabliau_, but in his India… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 411-13, denies the Eastern origin of the _fabliau_, but in his Indiaphobia M. Bédier is _capable de tout_. Who acts: 411-13. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, L. the Three Feathers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, L. the Three Feathers, sentence 9

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411-13, denies the Eastern origin of the \_fabliau\_, but in his Indiaphobia M. Bédier is \_capable de tout\_.

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**Who acts:** 411-13 · **What happens:** deny, be · **To what, where:** Eastern origin, \_ capable de tout, Indiaphobia

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, L. the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (411-13), 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:pg14241:41:9
# text = 411-13, denies the Eastern origin of the _fabliau_, but in his Indiaphobia M. Bédier is _capable de tout_.
1	411-13	411-13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	denies	deny	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	fabliau	fabliau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Indiaphobia	Indiaphobia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
17	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	Bédier	Bédier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	tout	tout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deny** | present | 411-13 | the Eastern origin of the fabliau |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent origin=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | \_ capable de tout |  | M.'s Indiaphobia |  |  | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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