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title: This collection is of special interest to us in the present connecti… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This collection is of special interest to us in the present connection, as it has come to Europe in various forms and shapes. Who acts: collection, connection. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 5

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This collection is of special interest to us in the present connection, as it has come to Europe in various forms and shapes.

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**Who acts:** collection, connection · **What happens:** be, come · **To what, where:** us, present connection, Europe, various forms

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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 (collection, connection), 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:pg7128:30:5
# text = This collection is of special interest to us in the present connection, as it has come to Europe in various forms and shapes.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	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 | **is** | present | this collection |  | us | the present connection |  | of special interest | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present · perfect | connection |  | Europe | various forms and shapes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to europe=Initial\_Location |

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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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