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title: The Indian stories were also used by the Italian _Novellieri_, much… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indian stories were also used by the Italian _Novellieri_, much of Boccaccio and his school being derived from this source. Who acts: Italian Novellieri. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 21

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The Indian stories were also used by the Italian \_Novellieri\_, much of Boccaccio and his school being derived from this source.

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**Who acts:** Italian Novellieri · **What happens:** use, derive · **To what, where:** Indian stories, school, source

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Italian Novellieri), 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:pg7128:30:21
# text = The Indian stories were also used by the Italian _Novellieri_, much of Boccaccio and his school being derived from this source.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Novellieri	Novellieri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Boccaccio	Boccaccio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive | the Italian Novellieri | the Indian stories |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **derive** | gerund · passive |  | Boccaccio's school |  | this source |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from source=Material |

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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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