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title: For it is only about twenty-five years ago that Miss Frere began the… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For it is only about twenty-five years ago that Miss Frere began the modern collection of Indian folk-tales with her charming "Old Deccan Days" (London, John Murray, 1868; fourth edition, 1889). Who acts: point, Miss. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, with its depen
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 31

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For it is only about twenty-five years ago that Miss Frere began the modern collection of Indian folk-tales with her charming "Old Deccan Days" (London, John Murray, 1868; fourth edition, 1889).

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**Who acts:** point, Miss · **What happens:** be, begin · **To what, where:** modern collection

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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: who acts (point, Miss), 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:pg7128:3:31
# text = For it is only about twenty-five years ago that Miss Frere began the modern collection of Indian folk-tales with her charming "Old Deccan Days" (London, John Murray, 1868; fourth edition, 1889).
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Frere	Frere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Deccan	Deccan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Days	Day	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	Murray	Murray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	1868	1868	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	40	amod	_	_
40	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	1889	1889	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | point |  |  |  | year | ago *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Miss | the modern collection of Indian folk tales with Miss's charming  Old Deccan Days |  |  |  | fourth edition *obl* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Eventuality |

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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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