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title: The Magic Ring is also "common form" in folk-tales; _cf. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Magic Ring is also "common form" in folk-tales; _cf. Who acts: Magic Ring. 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 9

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The Magic Ring is also "common form" in folk-tales; \_cf.

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**Who acts:** Magic Ring · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** common form, folk tales

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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 (Magic Ring), 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:pg7128:43:9
# text = The Magic Ring is also "common form" in folk-tales; _cf.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Magic Ring | common form and cf |  | folk tales |  |  | 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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