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title: Selected and Edited by — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Selected and Edited by A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Indian Fairy Tales, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Indian Fairy Tales, sentence 1

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Selected and Edited by

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**What happens:** select, edit

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Indian Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:2:1
# text = Selected and Edited by
1	Selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Edited	edit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **edit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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