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title: [Footnote 2: An admirable and full account of this literature was gi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 2: An admirable and full account of this literature was given by M. A. Barth in _Mélusine_, t. iv. Who acts: M.. 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 42

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\[Footnote 2: An admirable and full account of this literature was given by M. A. Barth in \_Mélusine\_, t. iv.

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**Who acts:** M. · **What happens:** give, account · **To what, where:** Footnote, \_, literature

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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 (M.), 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:pg7128:30:42
# text = [Footnote 2: An admirable and full account of this literature was given by M. A. Barth in _Mélusine_, t. iv.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	admirable	admirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	Barth	Barth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Mélusine	Mélusine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	t.	t.	X	FW	_	25	compound	_	_
25	iv	iv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive | M. | Footnote |  | \_ and t. iv |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **account** |  |  | this literature |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication 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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