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title: This would give them an age of over two thousand years, nearly three… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This would give them an age of over two thousand years, nearly three hundred years earlier than Phædrus, from whom comes our _Wolf and Crane_. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. the Lion and the Crane., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, I. the Lion and the Crane., sentence 25

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This would give them an age of over two thousand years, nearly three hundred years earlier than Phædrus, from whom comes our \_Wolf and Crane\_.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** give, come · **To what, where:** age, verses, \_ Wolf

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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 (This), 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:pg7128:32:25
# text = This would give them an age of over two thousand years, nearly three hundred years earlier than Phædrus, from whom comes our _Wolf and Crane_.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Crane	Crane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would | This | a age of thousand years | verses *= verse* |  |  | early *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient age=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present |  | our \_ Wolf and Crane |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wolf=Theme |

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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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