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title: Unfortunately, the form in which it occurs is mutilated, and we cann… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Unfortunately, the form in which it occurs is mutilated, and we cannot draw any definite conclusion from it. Who acts: form, we. 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 18

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Unfortunately, the form in which it occurs is mutilated, and we cannot draw any definite conclusion from it.

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**Who acts:** form, we · **What happens:** occur, mutilate, not draw · **To what, where:** form, definite conclusion

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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 (form, we), 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:pg7128:37:18
# text = Unfortunately, the form in which it occurs is mutilated, and we cannot draw any definite conclusion from it.
1	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	mutilated	mutilate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	definite	definite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | form |  |  | the form |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 2 | **mutilate** | present · passive |  | the form |  |  |  | unfortunately *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **draw** | can | we | any definite conclusion |  | form |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent conclusion=Theme from it=Initial\_Location |

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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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