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title: It should also be mentioned that one-half of La Fontaine's Fables (B… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It should also be mentioned that one-half of La Fontaine's Fables (Bks. vii.-xii.) are derived from Indian sources. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 24

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It should also be mentioned that one-half of La Fontaine's Fables (Bks. vii.-xii.) are derived from Indian sources.

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**What happens:** mention, derive · **To what, where:** material, one half, Indian sources

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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: 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:pg7128:30:24
# text = It should also be mentioned that one-half of La Fontaine's Fables (Bks. vii.-xii.) are derived from Indian sources.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Fontaine	Fontaine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
14	Fables	Fable	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Bks	bk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
18	vii	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	xii	xii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | should · passive |  | material |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **derive** | present · passive |  | one half of Bks and vii and xii |  | Indian sources |  |  | 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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