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title: _--I have selected _The Wolf and the Crane_ as my typical example in… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--I have selected _The Wolf and the Crane_ as my typical example in my "History of the Æsopic Fable," and can only give here a rough summary of the results I there arrived at concerning the fable, merely premising that these results are at present no more than hypotheses. Who acts: I, results, my. 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 15

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\_--I have selected \_The Wolf and the Crane\_ as my typical example in my "History of the Æsopic Fable," and can only give here a rough summary of the results I there arrived at concerning the fable, merely premising that these results are at present no more than hypotheses.

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**Who acts:** I, results, my · **What happens:** select, give, arrive, concern, premise, be · **To what, where:** Wolf, History, rough summary, fable

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. the Lion and the Crane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, results, my), 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:pg7128:32:15
# text = _--I have selected _The Wolf and the Crane_ as my typical example in my "History of the Æsopic Fable," and can only give here a rough summary of the results I there arrived at concerning the fable, merely premising that these results are at present no more than hypotheses.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Crane	Crane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	typical	typical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Æsopic	Æsopic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Fable	Fable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
31	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	summary	summary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
40	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
41	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	premising	premise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	conj	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
49	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
50	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
51	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	ccomp	_	_
54	no	no	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	_
56	than	than	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	hypotheses	hypothesis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | present · perfect | I | the Wolf and the Crane |  | my History of the Æsopic Fable |  | as my typical example | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme as example=Attribute |
| 2 | **give** | can | I *not said here* | a rough summary of the results |  | here |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summary=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | I | a rough summary of the results *not said here* |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **concern** | gerund | I *not said here* | the fable |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fable=Experiencer |
| 5 | **premise** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | this results |  |  |  |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **exemplify** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: 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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