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title: The English variant was derived from an English Gipsy, and suggests… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The English variant was derived from an English Gipsy, and suggests the possibility that for this particular story the medium of transmission has been the Gipsies. Who acts: medium. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XII. the Charmed Ring., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XII. the Charmed Ring., sentence 23

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The English variant was derived from an English Gipsy, and suggests the possibility that for this particular story the medium of transmission has been the Gipsies.

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**Who acts:** medium · **What happens:** derive, suggest, be · **To what, where:** English variant, English Gipsy, possibility, Gipsies

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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: who acts (medium), 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:pg7128:43:23
# text = The English variant was derived from an English Gipsy, and suggests the possibility that for this particular story the medium of transmission has been the Gipsies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Gipsy	gipsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	dep	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	medium	medium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	transmission	transmission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Gipsies	gipsy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | past · passive |  | the English variant |  | a English Gipsy |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from gipsy=Material |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present |  | the possibility |  |  |  | for this particular story | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent possibility=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present · perfect | the medium of transmission | the Gipsies |  |  |  |  | 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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