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title: 177; and a couple more in my _Æsop_, p. 253: add Smeaton, _Karens_,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 177; and a couple more in my _Æsop_, p. 253: add Smeaton, _Karens_, p. 126. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 12

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177; and a couple more in my \_Æsop\_, p. 253: add Smeaton, \_Karens\_, p. 126.

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**What happens:** add · **To what, where:** Smeaton

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:40:12
# text = 177; and a couple more in my _Æsop_, p. 253: add Smeaton, _Karens_, p. 126.
1	177	177	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	253	253	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
17	Smeaton	Smeaton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Karens	karen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	126	126	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | Smeaton and Karens |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smeaton=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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