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title: "If these are his _virtues_, where are then his faults?" replied he. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "If these are his _virtues_, where are then his faults?" replied he. Who acts: these, _ virtues, virtue. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 27

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"If these are his \_virtues\_, where are then his faults?" replied he.

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**Who acts:** these, \_ virtues, virtue · **What happens:** be, reply, fault · **To what, where:** \_ virtues · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, \_ virtues, virtue), 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:pg7128:20:27
# text = "If these are his _virtues_, where are then his faults?" replied he.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	faults	fault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | these | king's \_ virtues |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | then *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | king's \_ virtues |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fault** *in a quote* |  | virtue |  |  |  |  |  | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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