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title: [Footnote 1: "History of the Æsopic Fable," the introductory volume… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 1: "History of the Æsopic Fable," the introductory volume to my edition of Caxton's _Fables of Esope_ (London, Nutt, 1889).] A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 29

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\[Footnote 1: "History of the Æsopic Fable," the introductory volume to my edition of Caxton's \_Fables of Esope\_ (London, Nutt, 1889).\]

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:3:29
# text = [Footnote 1: "History of the Æsopic Fable," the introductory volume to my edition of Caxton's _Fables of Esope_ (London, Nutt, 1889).]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Æsopic	Æsopic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Fable	Fable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	introductory	introductory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	Caxton	Caxton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Fables	Fable	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Esope	Esope	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
27	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	1889	1889	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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