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title: A letter following a carat character is superscripted. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A letter following a carat character is superscripted. Who acts: letter. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Opening, sentence 7

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A letter following a carat character is superscripted.

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**Who acts:** letter · **What happens:** follow, superscript · **To what, where:** carat character, letter

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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:pg7128:1:7
# text = A letter following a carat character is superscripted.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	carat	carat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	superscripted	superscript	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund | a letter *not said here* | a carat character |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Theme |
| 2 | **superscript** | present · passive |  | a letter |  |  |  |  | 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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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