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title: The wise and learned, and they who were skilled in magic and in all… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The wise and learned, and they who were skilled in magic and in all manner of trickery, were consulted. Who acts: wise. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 118

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The wise and learned, and they who were skilled in magic and in all manner of trickery, were consulted.

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**Who acts:** wise · **What happens:** learn, skill, consult · **To what, where:** Queens, magic, manner

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise), 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:pg7128:25:118
# text = The wise and learned, and they who were skilled in magic and in all manner of trickery, were consulted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	skilled	skill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	trickery	trickery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	consulted	consult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | the wise |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **skill** | past · passive |  | Queens *= queen* |  | magic |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **consult** | past · passive |  |  |  | all manner of trickery |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» |

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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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