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title: From her covering her face with lotus petals I learn her name, and f… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From her covering her face with lotus petals I learn her name, and from her showing you the ivory box I learn where she lives. Who acts: fairy, I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 102

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From her covering her face with lotus petals I learn her name, and from her showing you the ivory box I learn where she lives.

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**Who acts:** fairy, I · **What happens:** cover, learn, show, live, name · **To what, where:** face, name, ivory box, you · **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 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, I), 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:pg7128:27:102
# text = From her covering her face with lotus petals I learn her name, and from her showing you the ivory box I learn where she lives.
1	From	from	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	ivory	ivory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | gerund | fairy | fairy's face |  |  |  | with lotus petals | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with petal=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | present | I | fairy's name |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | fairy *not said here* | the ivory box | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient box=Topic |
| 4 | **learn** | present | I | the ivory box *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | present | fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **name** |  | fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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