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title: This contains the incident of the loss of the ring by the faithful a… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This contains the incident of the loss of the ring by the faithful animal, which again could not have been independently invented. Who acts: This. 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 24

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This contains the incident of the loss of the ring by the faithful animal, which again could not have been independently invented.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** contain, not invent · **To what, where:** incident, faithful animal

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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 (This), 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:pg7128:43:24
# text = This contains the incident of the loss of the ring by the faithful animal, which again could not have been independently invented.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	independently	independently	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **contain** | present | This | the incident of the loss of the ring by the faithful animal |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot incident=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **invent** | could · perfect · passive |  | the faithful animal |  |  | again | independently *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: which=Result |

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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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