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title: I have, however, to some extent handicapped myself, as I have avoide… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have, however, to some extent handicapped myself, as I have avoided giving again the Indian versions of stories already given in _English Fairy Tales_ or _Celtic Fairy Tales_. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, with its dependen
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25, sentence 23

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I have, however, to some extent handicapped myself, as I have avoided giving again the Indian versions of stories already given in \_English Fairy Tales\_ or \_Celtic Fairy Tales\_.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, handicap, avoid, give · **To what, where:** myself, Indian versions, English Fairy Tales

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg7128:31:23
# text = I have, however, to some extent handicapped myself, as I have avoided giving again the Indian versions of stories already given in _English Fairy Tales_ or _Celtic Fairy Tales_.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	handicapped	handicap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	already	already	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **handicap** | past |  | myself |  |  |  | to some extent; however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **avoid** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | gerund | I *not said here* | the Indian versions of stories |  |  | again |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | participle |  | the Indian versions of stories *not said here* |  | English Fairy Tales or Celtic Fairy Tales |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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