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title: There is a singing bone in Steel-Temple's _Wideawake Stories_, pp. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a singing bone in Steel-Temple's _Wideawake Stories_, pp. Who acts: singing bone. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. the Magic Fiddle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VI. the Magic Fiddle., sentence 13

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There is a singing bone in Steel-Temple's \_Wideawake Stories\_, pp.

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**Who acts:** singing bone · **What happens:** be, sing

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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 (singing bone), 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:pg7128:37:13
# text = There is a singing bone in Steel-Temple's _Wideawake Stories_, pp.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Steel	Steel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Temple	Temple	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Wideawake	wideawake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | a singing bone in Steel and Temple and Wideawake Stories and pp |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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