--- title: This Chinese ball arrangement is found in the Deccan ("Punchkin"); i… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: This Chinese ball arrangement is found in the Deccan ("Punchkin"); in Bengal (Day, _Folk-Tales of Bengal_); in Russia (Ralston, p. 103 _seq. Who acts: Bengal. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/35/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [IV. Punchkin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/35/) / 15 # Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 15 This Chinese ball arrangement is found in the Deccan ("Punchkin"); in Bengal (Day, \_Folk-Tales of Bengal\_); in Russia (Ralston, p. 103 \_seq. **Who acts:** Bengal · **What happens:** find, tell · **To what, where:** ball arrangement, Deccan · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bengal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:35:15 # text = This Chinese ball arrangement is found in the Deccan ("Punchkin"); in Bengal (Day, _Folk-Tales of Bengal_); in Russia (Ralston, p. 103 _seq. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 2 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 arrangement arrangement NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Deccan Deccan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Punchkin Punchkin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 appos _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 Russia Russia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Ralston Ralston PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 36 103 103 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 flat _ _ 37 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 seq seq NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present · passive | | this ball arrangement | | the Deccan | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **tell** | | Bengal | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/35/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/35/16/) - ↑ back to [IV. Punchkin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/35/)