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title: _--The white skin and blue eyes of Prince Majnun deserve attention. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The white skin and blue eyes of Prince Majnun deserve attention. Who acts: skin eyes. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. Loving Laili., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VIII. Loving Laili., sentence 12

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\_--The white skin and blue eyes of Prince Majnun deserve attention.

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**Who acts:** skin eyes · **What happens:** deserve · **To what, where:** attention

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VIII. Loving Laili.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin eyes), 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:pg7128:39:12
# text = _--The white skin and blue eyes of Prince Majnun deserve attention.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Majnun	Majnun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | present | skin eyes of Majnun  Prince | attention |  |  |  |  | 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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