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title: K. Krohn in his elaborate discussion of this fable in his dissertati… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: K. Krohn in his elaborate discussion of this fable in his dissertation, _Mann und Fuchs_, (Helsingfors, 1891), pp. Who acts: Prof. 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 7

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K. Krohn in his elaborate discussion of this fable in his dissertation, \_Mann und Fuchs\_, (Helsingfors, 1891), pp.

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**Who acts:** Prof · **What happens:** discuss, dissertate · **To what, where:** fable

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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 (Prof), 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:pg7128:40:7
# text = K. Krohn in his elaborate discussion of this fable in his dissertation, _Mann und Fuchs_, (Helsingfors, 1891), pp.
1	K.	K.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Krohn	Krohn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	elaborate	elaborate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	discussion	discussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dissertation	dissertation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Mann	Mann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	und	und	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	list	_	_
17	Fuchs	Fuchs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Helsingfors	Helsingfor	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	1891	1891	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discuss** |  | Prof | this fable in Prof's dissertation |  |  |  |  | nom discussion «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 2 | **dissertate** |  | Prof |  |  |  |  |  | nom dissertation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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