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title: The first occurs in two Egyptian versions collected in the present d… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The first occurs in two Egyptian versions collected in the present day, as well as in Petrus Alphonsi in the twelfth century, and the _Fabulæ Extravagantes_ of the thirteenth or fourteenth: here the ingrate animal is a crocodile, which asks to be carried away from a river about to dry up, and there 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal., sentence 17

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The first occurs in two Egyptian versions collected in the present day, as well as in Petrus Alphonsi in the twelfth century, and the \_Fabulæ Extravagantes\_ of the thirteenth or fourteenth: here the ingrate animal is a crocodile, which asks to be carried away from a river about to dry up, and there is only one judge.

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**Who acts:** first, ingrate animal, crocodile, one judge · **What happens:** occur, collect, be, ask, carry away, dry up · **To what, where:** two Egyptian versions, crocodile, river

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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: who acts (first, ingrate animal, crocodile, one judge), 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:pg7128:40:17
# text = The first occurs in two Egyptian versions collected in the present day, as well as in Petrus Alphonsi in the twelfth century, and the _Fabulæ Extravagantes_ of the thirteenth or fourteenth: here the ingrate animal is a crocodile, which asks to be carried away from a river about to dry up, and there is only one judge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	nsubj	_	_
3	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Petrus	Petrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Alphonsi	Alphonsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Fabulæ	Fabulæ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
29	Extravagantes	Extravagantes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	thirteenth	thirteenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	fourteenth	fourteenth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
37	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	ingrate	ingrate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	xcomp	_	_
50	away	away	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
57	up	up	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	61	expl	_	_
61	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	parataxis	_	_
62	only	only	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	64	nummod	_	_
64	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | the first |  |  | two Egyptian versions |  | in Petrus Alphonsi in the twelfth century | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in version=Location |
| 2 | **collect** | participle |  | two Egyptian versions *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the ingrate animal | a crocodile |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a crocodile |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **carry away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | a crocodile *not said here* |  |  | a river |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: from river=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **dry up** | to-infinitive | a crocodile *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **be** | present | one judge |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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