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title: La Fontaine's version, which has rendered the fable so familiar to u… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: La Fontaine's version, which has rendered the fable so familiar to us all, comes from Bonaventure des Periers, _Contes et Nouvelles_, who got it from the _Dialogus Creaturarum_ of Nicholaus Pergamenus, who derived it from the _Sermones_ of Jacques de Vitry (see Prof. Who acts: version, Bonaventure, 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 18

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La Fontaine's version, which has rendered the fable so familiar to us all, comes from Bonaventure des Periers, \_Contes et Nouvelles\_, who got it from the \_Dialogus Creaturarum\_ of Nicholaus Pergamenus, who derived it from the \_Sermones\_ of Jacques de Vitry (see Prof.

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**Who acts:** version, Bonaventure, Contes, Dialogus Creaturarum \_ · **What happens:** render, come, de, et, get, derive · **To what, where:** version, Periers, Nouvelles, Dialogus Creaturarum \_, Sermones \_, Prof

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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 (version, Bonaventure, Contes, Dialogus Creaturarum \_), 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:pg7128:36:18
# text = La Fontaine's version, which has rendered the fable so familiar to us all, comes from Bonaventure des Periers, _Contes et Nouvelles_, who got it from the _Dialogus Creaturarum_ of Nicholaus Pergamenus, who derived it from the _Sermones_ of Jacques de Vitry (see Prof.
1	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Fontaine	Fontaine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Bonaventure	Bonaventure	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	Periers	perier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Contes	conte	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	et	et	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
26	Nouvelles	Nouvelles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
34	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Dialogus	Dialogus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	Creaturarum	Creaturarum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Nicholaus	Nicholaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	Pergamenus	Pergamenus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	derived	derive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	Sermones	Sermones	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	Jacques	Jacques	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
52	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	flat	_	_
53	Vitry	Vitry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
54	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
56	Prof	prof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **render** | present · perfect · passive |  | La's version |  |  |  | familiar *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient fable=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | La's version |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **de** | present | Bonaventure | Periers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **et** | past | Contes | Nouvelles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | past |  | version |  | the Dialogus Creaturarum \_ of Nicholaus |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from \_=Source |
| 6 | **derive** | past | the Dialogus Creaturarum \_ of Nicholaus | version |  | the Sermones \_ of Jacques Vitry |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent it=Result from \_=Material |
| 7 | **see** | infinitive |  | Prof |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prof=Stimulus |

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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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