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title: _--The incident of the Aiding Animals is frequent in folk-tales: see… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The incident of the Aiding Animals is frequent in folk-tales: see bibliographical references, _sub voce_, in my List of Incidents, _Trans. Who acts: incident, my. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XII. the Charmed Ring., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XII. the Charmed Ring., sentence 5

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\_--The incident of the Aiding Animals is frequent in folk-tales: see bibliographical references, \_sub voce\_, in my List of Incidents, \_Trans.

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**Who acts:** incident, my · **What happens:** be, see, list · **To what, where:** folk tales, bibliographical references, List, Incidents

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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 (incident, my), 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:pg7128:43:5
# text = _--The incident of the Aiding Animals is frequent in folk-tales: see bibliographical references, _sub voce_, in my List of Incidents, _Trans.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Aiding	aiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	bibliographical	bibliographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	sub	sub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	voce	voce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	List	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Trans	Tran	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is** | present | the incident of the Aiding Animals |  |  | folk tales |  | frequent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive |  | bibliographical references |  | my List of Incidents |  | sub voce *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reference=Stimulus |
| 3 | **list** |  | my | Incidents |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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