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title: The source was a beautiful lake, which at that time was covered with… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The source was a beautiful lake, which at that time was covered with the magnificent lotus flower and other water plants. Who acts: source. 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 63

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The source was a beautiful lake, which at that time was covered with the magnificent lotus flower and other water plants.

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**Who acts:** source · **What happens:** be, cover · **To what, where:** beautiful lake

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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 (source), 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:pg7128:27:63
# text = The source was a beautiful lake, which at that time was covered with the magnificent lotus flower and other water plants.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the source | a beautiful lake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | a beautiful lake |  |  | time | with the magnificent lotus flower and other water plants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: which=Destination with flower=Theme |

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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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