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title: It was possibly from an early form of this collection that Richard C… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was possibly from an early form of this collection that Richard Coeur de Lion got the story, and used it to rebuke the ingratitude of the English nobles on his return in 1195. Who acts: story, Richard. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son., with its depende
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# Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 13

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It was possibly from an early form of this collection that Richard Coeur de Lion got the story, and used it to rebuke the ingratitude of the English nobles on his return in 1195.

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**Who acts:** story, Richard · **What happens:** be, get, use, rebuke, return · **To what, where:** early form, story, ingratitude

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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, Richard), 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:pg7128:41:13
# text = It was possibly from an early form of this collection that Richard Coeur de Lion got the story, and used it to rebuke the ingratitude of the English nobles on his return in 1195.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	Coeur	Coeur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
15	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	rebuke	rebuke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	1195	1195	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | past | story |  |  | a early form |  | of this collection; possibly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | past | Richard | the story |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 3 | **use** | past | Richard *not said here* | story |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **rebuke** | to-infinitive | Richard *not said here* | the ingratitude of the English nobles on Richard's return in 1195 |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ingratitude=Theme |
| 5 | **return** |  | Richard |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «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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