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title: The theme of La Perette is of interest as showing the _literary_ tra… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The theme of La Perette is of interest as showing the _literary_ transmission of tales from Orient to Occident. Who acts: theme, interest. 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 22

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The theme of La Perette is of interest as showing the \_literary\_ transmission of tales from Orient to Occident.

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**Who acts:** theme, interest · **What happens:** be, show, transmit · **To what, where:** literary transmission, tales

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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 (theme, interest), 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:pg7128:36:22
# text = The theme of La Perette is of interest as showing the _literary_ transmission of tales from Orient to Occident.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	theme	theme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Perette	Perette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
15	transmission	transmission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Orient	orient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Occident	Occident	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the theme of La |  |  |  |  | of interest | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | interest *not said here* | the literary transmission of tales from Orient |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent transmission=Recipient |
| 3 | **transmit** |  |  | tales from Orient |  |  |  |  | nom transmission «act transitive»: 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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