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title: 170-5, where it is the taunts of the other birds that cause the cata… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 170-5, where it is the taunts of the other birds that cause the catastrophe: "O here is a brave sight, looke, here is a goodly ieast, what bugge haue we here," said some. " Who acts: _, other birds, taunts, 170-5. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise., wi
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XIII. the Talkative Tortoise., sentence 8

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170-5, where it is the taunts of the other birds that cause the catastrophe: "O here is a brave sight, looke, here is a goodly ieast, what bugge haue we here," said some. "

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**Who acts:** \_, other birds, taunts, 170-5 · **What happens:** be, cause, say · **To what, where:** taunts, catastrophe, brave sight, goodly ieast, some · **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 (\_, other birds, taunts, 170-5), 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:pg7128:44:8
# text = 170-5, where it is the taunts of the other birds that cause the catastrophe: "O here is a brave sight, looke, here is a goodly ieast, what bugge haue we here," said some. "
1	170-5	170-5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	taunts	taunt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	looke	looke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	ieast	ieast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
34	bugge	bugge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	haue	haue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
40	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
41	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	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** | present | \_ | the taunts |  | here |  | of the other birds | tree rules |
| 2 | **cause** | present | the other birds | the catastrophe |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition catastrophe=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the taunts | a brave sight and looke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | 170-5 | a goodly ieast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent some=Topic |

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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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