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title: A replica of it here may serve to show that it could be used equally… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A replica of it here may serve to show that it could be used equally well to illustrate the Pali original as its English great-great-great-great-great-great grand-child. Who acts: replica. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise., with its dependency tree an
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise., sentence 12

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A replica of it here may serve to show that it could be used equally well to illustrate the Pali original as its English great-great-great-great-great-great grand-child.

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**Who acts:** replica · **What happens:** serve, show, use, illustrate · **To what, where:** replica · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (replica), 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:pg7128:44:12
# text = A replica of it here may serve to show that it could be used equally well to illustrate the Pali original as its English great-great-great-great-great-great grand-child.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	replica	replica	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
15	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Pali	Pali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
24	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **serve** | may | a replica of illustration |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | a replica of illustration *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **use** | could · passive |  | replica |  |  |  | well *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **illustrate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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