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title: _ "Battle of the Birds" in _Celtic Fairy Tales_), though the exact f… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ "Battle of the Birds" in _Celtic Fairy Tales_), though the exact forms as given in "Princess Labam" are not known in Europe. 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 16

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\_ "Battle of the Birds" in \_Celtic Fairy Tales\_), though the exact forms as given in "Princess Labam" are not known in Europe.

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**What happens:** give, not know · **To what, where:** exact forms, Princess Labam, Battle Birds, Europe

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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: 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:pg7128:33:16
# text = _ "Battle of the Birds" in _Celtic Fairy Tales_), though the exact forms as given in "Princess Labam" are not known in Europe.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Labam	Labam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  | the exact forms *not said here* |  | Princess Labam |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present · passive |  | the Battle Birds in Celtic Fairy Tales and the exact forms |  | Europe |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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