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title: M. Bédier, as usual, denies the Indian origin, _Les Fabliaux_, pp. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: M. Bédier, as usual, denies the Indian origin, _Les Fabliaux_, pp. Who acts: M. Bédier. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV. the Three Wishes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXV. the Three Wishes, sentence 8

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M. Bédier, as usual, denies the Indian origin, \_Les Fabliaux\_, pp.

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**Who acts:** M. Bédier · **What happens:** deny · **To what, where:** Indian origin

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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 (M. Bédier), 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:pg14241:56:8
# text = M. Bédier, as usual, denies the Indian origin, _Les Fabliaux_, pp.
1	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Bédier	Bédier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	denies	deny	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Les	Les	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat:foreign	_	_
14	Fabliaux	Fabliaux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deny** | present | M. Bédier | the Indian origin |  |  |  | Les pp *obl* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent origin=Eventuality |

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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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