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title: _--An interesting point, to which I have drawn attention in my Intro… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--An interesting point, to which I have drawn attention in my Introduction to North's Bidpai, is the probability that the illustrations of the tales as well as the tales themselves, were translated, so to speak, from one country to another. Who acts: I, interesting point, my. A sentence of «Indian 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted., sentence 11

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\_--An interesting point, to which I have drawn attention in my Introduction to North's Bidpai, is the probability that the illustrations of the tales as well as the tales themselves, were translated, so to speak, from one country to another.

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**Who acts:** I, interesting point, my · **What happens:** draw, be, translate, speak, introduce, illustrate · **To what, where:** attention, Introduction, probability, illustrations, one country, tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, interesting point, my), 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:pg7128:38:11
# text = _--An interesting point, to which I have drawn attention in my Introduction to North's Bidpai, is the probability that the illustrations of the tales as well as the tales themselves, were translated, so to speak, from one country to another.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
12	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	probability	probability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	34	cc	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	fixed	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
35	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | present · perfect | I | attention |  | my Introduction to North's Bidpai |  | to a interesting point | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent attention=Theme in introduction=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a interesting point | the probability |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **translate** | past · passive |  | the illustrations of the tales as the tales  illustrations |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | one country to another |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **introduce** |  | my |  |  |  |  | to North's Bidpai | nom introduction «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 6 | **illustrate** |  |  | the tales as the tales  illustrations |  |  |  |  | nom illustration «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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