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title: _--We have here a concrete instance of the relation of Indian and Eu… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--We have here a concrete instance of the relation of Indian and European fairy-tales. Who acts: We. 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 18

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\_--We have here a concrete instance of the relation of Indian and European fairy-tales.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** have, instance · **To what, where:** concrete instance, relation

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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 (We), 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:pg7128:33:18
# text = _--We have here a concrete instance of the relation of Indian and European fairy-tales.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	concrete	concrete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
13	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | We | a concrete instance of the relation of Indian fairy tales |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Patient |
| 2 | **instance** |  |  | the relation of Indian fairy tales |  |  |  |  | nom instance «event transitive»: of=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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