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title: _--The similarity of Pig No. 3 rolling down hill in the churn and th… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The similarity of Pig No. 3 rolling down hill in the churn and the Lambikin in the Drumikin can scarcely be accidental, though, it must be confessed, the tale has undergone considerable modification before it reached England. Who acts: similarity, hill. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Josep
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# Indian Fairy Tales, III. Lambikin., sentence 12

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\_--The similarity of Pig No. 3 rolling down hill in the churn and the Lambikin in the Drumikin can scarcely be accidental, though, it must be confessed, the tale has undergone considerable modification before it reached England.

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**Who acts:** similarity, hill · **What happens:** roll down, be, confess, undergo, reach · **To what, where:** hill, churn, tale, England

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, III. Lambikin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (similarity, hill), 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:pg7128:34:12
# text = _--The similarity of Pig No. 3 rolling down hill in the churn and the Lambikin in the Drumikin can scarcely be accidental, though, it must be confessed, the tale has undergone considerable modification before it reached England.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	similarity	similarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	churn	churn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Drumikin	Drumikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	accidental	accidental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	though	though	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	confessed	confess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	undergone	undergo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
37	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	modification	modification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
42	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll down** | gerund | the similarity of Pig No. *not said here* | hill |  | the churn and the Lambikin in the Drumikin |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hill=Theme in churn=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | can | the similarity of Pig No. |  |  |  |  | accidental, scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **confess** | must · passive |  | hill |  |  |  | though *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **undergo** | present · perfect · passive |  | the tale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reach** | past | hill | England |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent england=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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