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title: In a paper read before the Folk-Lore Congress of 1891, and reprinted… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In a paper read before the Folk-Lore Congress of 1891, and reprinted in the _Transactions_, pp. 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 88

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In a paper read before the Folk-Lore Congress of 1891, and reprinted in the \_Transactions\_, pp.

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**What happens:** read, reprint · **To what, where:** paper, Transactions

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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:pg7128:30:88
# text = In a paper read before the Folk-Lore Congress of 1891, and reprinted in the _Transactions_, pp.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Folk	Folk	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1891	1891	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	reprinted	reprint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Transactions	Transaction	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | participle |  | a paper and pp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reprint** | participle |  | a paper and pp *not said here* |  | the Transactions |  |  | tree rules |

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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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