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title: Of every dainty dish that was brought round, she placed a small port… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Of every dainty dish that was brought round, she placed a small portion under one of her beautiful long finger-nails, that Star might also have a share in the treat. Who acts: Moon, Star. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 17

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Of every dainty dish that was brought round, she placed a small portion under one of her beautiful long finger-nails, that Star might also have a share in the treat.

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**Who acts:** Moon, Star · **What happens:** bring round, place, have · **To what, where:** dainty dish, small portion, share, treat

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, Star), 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:pg7128:29:17
# text = Of every dainty dish that was brought round, she placed a small portion under one of her beautiful long finger-nails, that Star might also have a share in the treat.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
3	dainty	dainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	round	round	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring round** | past · passive |  | every dainty dish |  |  |  | round *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | past | Moon | a small portion |  |  |  | of every dainty dish; under one of Moon's beautiful long finger nails | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent portion=Theme under one=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | might | Star | a share |  | the treat |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient |

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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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