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title: _ The story of the ingratitude of man compared with the gratitude of… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ The story of the ingratitude of man compared with the gratitude of beasts came early to the West, where it occurs in the _Gesta Romanorum_, c. 119. Who acts: story. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 12

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\_ The story of the ingratitude of man compared with the gratitude of beasts came early to the West, where it occurs in the \_Gesta Romanorum\_, c. 119.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** compare, come, occur · **To what, where:** man, West, Gesta c.

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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:pg7128:41:12
# text = _ The story of the ingratitude of man compared with the gratitude of beasts came early to the West, where it occurs in the _Gesta Romanorum_, c. 119.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Gesta	Gesta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
28	Romanorum	Romanorum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	c.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
32	119	119	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | participle |  | man *not said here* |  |  |  | with the gratitude of beasts | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with gratitude=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | the story of the ingratitude of man |  |  | the West |  | early *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to west=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **occur** | present | story |  |  | the Gesta c. |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in c.=Location |

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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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