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title: The mother transformed, envious stepmother, ring recognition, are al… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother transformed, envious stepmother, ring recognition, are all incidents common to East and West; bibliographical references for parallels may be found under these titles in my List of Incidents. Who acts: mother, my. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Punchkin., with it
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# Indian Fairy Tales, IV. Punchkin., sentence 7

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The mother transformed, envious stepmother, ring recognition, are all incidents common to East and West; bibliographical references for parallels may be found under these titles in my List of Incidents.

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**Who acts:** mother, my · **What happens:** transform, be, find, list · **To what, where:** envious stepmother, incidents, bibliographical references, titles

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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 (mother, my), 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:pg7128:35:7
# text = The mother transformed, envious stepmother, ring recognition, are all incidents common to East and West; bibliographical references for parallels may be found under these titles in my List of Incidents.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	transformed	transform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	recognition	recognition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	bibliographical	bibliographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	titles	title	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	List	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transform** | past | the mother | envious stepmother and ring recognition |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepmother=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | incidents |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | may · passive |  | bibliographical references for parallels |  | this titles |  | in my List of Incidents | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **list** |  | my | Incidents |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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