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title: Another collection from Bengal was that of Lal Behari Day, a Hindu g… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Another collection from Bengal was that of Lal Behari Day, a Hindu gentleman, in his _Folk-Tales of Bengal_ (London, Macmillan, 1883). Who acts: Bengal. 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 cl
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 50

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Another collection from Bengal was that of Lal Behari Day, a Hindu gentleman, in his \_Folk-Tales of Bengal\_ (London, Macmillan, 1883).

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**Who acts:** Bengal · **What happens:** be, tell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bengal), 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:pg7128:30:50
# text = Another collection from Bengal was that of Lal Behari Day, a Hindu gentleman, in his _Folk-Tales of Bengal_ (London, Macmillan, 1883).
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	Behari	Behari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Hindu	hindu	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Macmillan	Macmillan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	1883	1883	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of Lal | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** |  | Bengal |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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