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title: Matthew Paris tells the story, _sub anno_ (it is an addition of his… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Matthew Paris tells the story, _sub anno_ (it is an addition of his to Ralph Disset), _Hist. Who acts: Matthew, story. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, X. the Soothsayer's Son., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, X. the Soothsayer's Son., sentence 14

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Matthew Paris tells the story, \_sub anno\_ (it is an addition of his to Ralph Disset), \_Hist.

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**Who acts:** Matthew, story · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** story, addition · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Matthew, 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:pg7128:41:14
# text = Matthew Paris tells the story, _sub anno_ (it is an addition of his to Ralph Disset), _Hist.
1	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	sub	sub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	anno	anno	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	Disset	Disset	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Hist	Hist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Matthew | the story |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | story | a addition |  |  |  | of Matthew's Ralph and \_ | tree rules |

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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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