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title: I do not, however, understand him to grant that they are all derived… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I do not, however, understand him to grant that they are all derived from one source--that represented in the Indian _Pantschatantra_. Who acts: I, one source. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV. the Three Wishes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXV. the Three Wishes, sentence 5

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I do not, however, understand him to grant that they are all derived from one source--that represented in the Indian \_Pantschatantra\_.

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**Who acts:** I, one source · **What happens:** not understand, grant, derive, represent · **To what, where:** \_, ages, one source

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV. the Three Wishes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one source), 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:pg14241:56:5
# text = I do not, however, understand him to grant that they are all derived from one source--that represented in the Indian _Pantschatantra_.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	represented	represent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Pantschatantra	Pantschatantra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | I | \_ |  |  |  | however *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grant** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **derive** | present · passive |  | ages *= age* |  | one source |  | all *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from source=Material |
| 4 | **represent** | past | one source |  |  |  |  | in the Indian Pantschatantra | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in pantschatantra=Attribute |

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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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