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title: _--The stories of Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth brother in the _Arab… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The stories of Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth brother in the _Arabian Nights_, and of La Perette, who counted her chickens before they were hatched, in La Fontaine, are demonstrably derived from the same Indian original from which our story was obtained. Who acts: La. A sentence of «Indian Fairy T
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# Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 15

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\_--The stories of Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth brother in the \_Arabian Nights\_, and of La Perette, who counted her chickens before they were hatched, in La Fontaine, are demonstrably derived from the same Indian original from which our story was obtained.

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**Who acts:** La · **What happens:** count, hatch, derive, obtain · **To what, where:** chickens, stories, same Indian original, story

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. the Broken Pot.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (La), 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:pg7128:36:15
# text = _--The stories of Alnaschar, the Barber's fifth brother in the _Arabian Nights_, and of La Perette, who counted her chickens before they were hatched, in La Fontaine, are demonstrably derived from the same Indian original from which our story was obtained.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Barber	Barber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
23	Perette	Perette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	Fontaine	Fontaine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
39	demonstrably	demonstrably	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obl	_	_
48	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past | La | La's chickens |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme |
| 2 | **hatch** | past · passive |  | chickens *= chicken* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **derive** | present · passive |  | the stories of Alnaschar *not said here* |  | the same Indian original |  | of La; demonstrably *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from original=Material |
| 4 | **obtain** | past · passive |  | our story |  | the same Indian original |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from which=Source |

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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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