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title: To Major Temple I owe the advantage of selecting from his admirable… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To Major Temple I owe the advantage of selecting from his admirable _Wideawake Stories_, and Messrs. Who acts: I, advantage. 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 44

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To Major Temple I owe the advantage of selecting from his admirable \_Wideawake Stories\_, and Messrs.

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**Who acts:** I, advantage · **What happens:** owe, select · **To what, where:** advantage, Major Temple, admirable Wideawake Stories

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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 (I, advantage), 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:pg7128:3:44
# text = To Major Temple I owe the advantage of selecting from his admirable _Wideawake Stories_, and Messrs.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Major	Major	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Temple	Temple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	owe	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	selecting	select	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	admirable	admirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Wideawake	wideawake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Messrs	Messrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | present | I | the advantage | Major Temple |  |  | Messrs *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme to temple=Goal |
| 2 | **select** | gerund | the advantage *not said here* |  |  | Temple's admirable Wideawake Stories |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from story=Source |

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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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