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title: Grateful Animals" and "Gifts by Grateful Animals." — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Grateful Animals" and "Gifts by Grateful Animals." Who acts: Grateful Animals. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, II. Princess Labam., sentence 13

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Grateful Animals" and "Gifts by Grateful Animals."

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**Who acts:** Grateful Animals · **What happens:** gift

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Princess Labam.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grateful Animals), 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:pg7128:33:13
# text = Grateful Animals" and "Gifts by Grateful Animals."
1	Grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gift** |  | Grateful Animals |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: by=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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