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title: Fairy Tales_, No. xvii, "Jack and his Golden Snuff-box," _cf. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Fairy Tales_, No. xvii, "Jack and his Golden Snuff-box," _cf. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XII. the Charmed Ring., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XII. the Charmed Ring., sentence 15

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Fairy Tales\_, No. xvii, "Jack and his Golden Snuff-box," \_cf.

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XII. the Charmed Ring.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7128:43:15
# text = Fairy Tales_, No. xvii, "Jack and his Golden Snuff-box," _cf.
1	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	No.	no.	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	xvii	xvii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	Snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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