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title: This would bring it under the formula of _The Singing Bone_, which M… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This would bring it under the formula of _The Singing Bone_, which M. Monseur has recently been studying with a remarkable collection of European variants in the Bulletin of the Wallon Folk-Lore Society of Liège (_cf. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. the Magic
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VI. the Magic Fiddle., sentence 10

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This would bring it under the formula of \_The Singing Bone\_, which M. Monseur has recently been studying with a remarkable collection of European variants in the Bulletin of the Wallon Folk-Lore Society of Liège (\_cf.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** bring, study, bulletin · **To what, where:** story, formula, Wallon Lore Society

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. the Magic Fiddle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg7128:37:10
# text = This would bring it under the formula of _The Singing Bone_, which M. Monseur has recently been studying with a remarkable collection of European variants in the Bulletin of the Wallon Folk-Lore Society of Liège (_cf.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	formula	formula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Singing	Singing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Bone	Bone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
16	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	Monseur	Monseur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
21	studying	study	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Bulletin	bulletin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
34	Wallon	Wallon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
35	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Liège	Liège	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | would | This | story |  | the formula of the Singing Bone |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **study** | present · perfect · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | with a remarkable collection of European variants in the Bulletin of the Wallon Lore Society of Liège and cf; recently *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bulletin** |  |  | the Wallon Lore Society of Liège and cf |  |  |  |  | nom bulletin «communication 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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