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title: It is obvious, however, that neither version contains the real finis… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is obvious, however, that neither version contains the real finish of the story, which must have contained the denunciation of the magic fiddle of the murderous sisters. Who acts: story, version. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. the Magic Fiddle., with its dependency tree 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VI. the Magic Fiddle., sentence 9

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It is obvious, however, that neither version contains the real finish of the story, which must have contained the denunciation of the magic fiddle of the murderous sisters.

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**Who acts:** story, version · **What happens:** be, contain · **To what, where:** real finish

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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 (story, version), 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:pg7128:37:9
# text = It is obvious, however, that neither version contains the real finish of the story, which must have contained the denunciation of the magic fiddle of the murderous sisters.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	obvious	obvious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	finish	finish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	denunciation	denunciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	murderous	murderous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | story |  |  |  |  | however, obvious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **contain** | present | neither version | the real finish of the story |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot finish=Theme |
| 3 | **contain** | must · perfect · passive |  | the real finish of the story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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