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title: Yet the latter is a very suspicious source, since Miss Frere derived… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet the latter is a very suspicious source, since Miss Frere derived her tales from a Christian _ayah_ whose family had been in Portuguese Goa for a hundred years. Who acts: latter, Miss, family, Punchkin. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, wi
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 97

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Yet the latter is a very suspicious source, since Miss Frere derived her tales from a Christian \_ayah\_ whose family had been in Portuguese Goa for a hundred years.

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**Who acts:** latter, Miss, family, Punchkin · **What happens:** be, derive, tell · **To what, where:** suspicious source, tales, Christian \_ ayah, Portuguese Goa · **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 (latter, Miss, family, Punchkin), 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:pg7128:30:97
# text = Yet the latter is a very suspicious source, since Miss Frere derived her tales from a Christian _ayah_ whose family had been in Portuguese Goa for a hundred years.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Frere	Frere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	derived	derive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	ayah	ayah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Goa	Goa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the latter | a suspicious source |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **derive** | past | Miss | Punchkin's tales |  | a Christian \_ ayah | year |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent tale=Result from ayah=Material |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | Portuguese Goa's family |  |  | Portuguese Goa |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** |  | Punchkin |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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