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title: The travels of the "Fables of Bidpai" from India to Europe are well… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The travels of the "Fables of Bidpai" from India to Europe are well known and distinctly traceable. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. the Broken Pot., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 16

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The travels of the "Fables of Bidpai" from India to Europe are well known and distinctly traceable.

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**What happens:** travel, know · **To what, where:** Europe

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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: 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:pg7128:36:16
# text = The travels of the "Fables of Bidpai" from India to Europe are well known and distinctly traceable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	traceable	traceable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the Fables of Bidpai from India | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of fable=Trajectory |
| 2 | **know** | present · passive |  |  | Europe |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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