--- title: M. Müller's brilliant essay on "The Migration of Fables" (_Selected… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: M. Müller's brilliant essay on "The Migration of Fables" (_Selected Essays_, i. 500-76), which is entirely devoted to the travels of the fable from India to La Fontaine. Who acts: M. Müller. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. the Broken Pot., with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [V. the Broken Pot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/) / 7 # Indian Fairy Tales, V. the Broken Pot., sentence 7 M. Müller's brilliant essay on "The Migration of Fables" (\_Selected Essays\_, i. 500-76), which is entirely devoted to the travels of the fable from India to La Fontaine. **Who acts:** M. Müller · **What happens:** select, devote, travel, essay · **To what, where:** brilliant essay, La, Migration 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 (M. Müller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:36:7 # text = M. Müller's brilliant essay on "The Migration of Fables" (_Selected Essays_, i. 500-76), which is entirely devoted to the travels of the fable from India to La Fontaine. 1 M. M. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Müller Müller PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 brilliant brilliant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 essay essay NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Migration Migration PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Fables Fable PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Selected select VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 Essays essay NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 i. i. X FW Foreign=Yes 20 nsubj _ _ 20 500-76 500-76 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 25 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 devoted devote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 27 to to SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fable fable NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 La La PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 Fontaine Fontaine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **select** | participle | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **devote** | present · passive | | M. Müller's brilliant essay on the Migration of Fables | | | | entirely *property* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **travel** | present | | | La | | | of the fable from India | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of fable=Trajectory | | 4 | **essay** | | M. Müller | | | the Migration of Fables | | | nom essay «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/8/) - ↑ back to [V. the Broken Pot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/36/)