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title: I have considerably condensed and modified the somewhat Babu English… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have considerably condensed and modified the somewhat Babu English of the original. Who acts: I. 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 5

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I have considerably condensed and modified the somewhat Babu English of the original.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** condense, modify · **To what, where:** somewhat

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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 (I), 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:pg7128:41:5
# text = I have considerably condensed and modified the somewhat Babu English of the original.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	considerably	considerably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	condensed	condense	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	modified	modify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	somewhat	somewhat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	Babu	Babu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **condense** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | considerably *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **modify** | participle | I *not said here* | the somewhat of the original |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent somewhat=Patient |

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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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