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title: _), formed the occasion for his first presentation of his now well-k… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _), formed the occasion for his first presentation of his now well-known hypothesis of the derivation of all folk-tales from India. Who acts: Benfey. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIV. Gobborn Seer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LIV. Gobborn Seer, sentence 12

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\_), formed the occasion for his first presentation of his now well-known hypothesis of the derivation of all folk-tales from India.

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**Who acts:** Benfey · **What happens:** form, know, present · **To what, where:** occasion, known hypothesis

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LIV. Gobborn Seer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benfey), 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:pg14241:45:12
# text = _), formed the occasion for his first presentation of his now well-known hypothesis of the derivation of all folk-tales from India.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	presentation	presentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	hypothesis	hypothesis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	derivation	derivation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
23	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past |  | the occasion |  |  |  | for Benfey's first presentation of Benfey's known hypothesis of the derivation of all folk tales from India | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent occasion=Result for presentation=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  | now | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **present** |  | Benfey | Benfey's known hypothesis of the derivation of all folk tales from India |  |  |  |  | nom presentation «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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