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title: Miss Stokes has been equally gracious in granting me the use of char… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Miss Stokes has been equally gracious in granting me the use of characteristic specimens from her "Indian Fairy Tales." Who acts: Miss. 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 43

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Miss Stokes has been equally gracious in granting me the use of characteristic specimens from her "Indian Fairy Tales."

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**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** be, grant, use · **To what, where:** use, me, characteristic specimens

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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 (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:pg7128:3:43
# text = Miss Stokes has been equally gracious in granting me the use of characteristic specimens from her "Indian Fairy Tales."
1	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Stokes	Stokes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	granting	grant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	characteristic	characteristic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | Miss |  |  |  |  | equally, gracious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grant** | gerund | Miss *not said here* | the use of characteristic specimens from Miss's Fairy Tales | me |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal use=Theme |
| 3 | **use** |  |  | characteristic specimens from Miss's Fairy Tales |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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