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title: _--It is indeed curious to find the story better told in Cornwall th… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--It is indeed curious to find the story better told in Cornwall than in the land of its birth, but there can be little doubt that the Buddhist version is the earliest and original form of the story. Who acts: Pop, little doubt, Buddhist version. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs,
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XIV. Lac of Rupees., sentence 11

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\_--It is indeed curious to find the story better told in Cornwall than in the land of its birth, but there can be little doubt that the Buddhist version is the earliest and original form of the story.

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**Who acts:** Pop, little doubt, Buddhist version · **What happens:** be, find, tell · **To what, where:** story, Cornwall, earliest original form · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Lac of Rupees.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pop, little doubt, Buddhist version), 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:pg7128:45:11
# text = _--It is indeed curious to find the story better told in Cornwall than in the land of its birth, but there can be little doubt that the Buddhist version is the earliest and original form of the story.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pop |  |  |  |  | curious, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Pop *not said here* | the story |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the story *not said here* |  | Cornwall |  | than the land of Pop's birth; well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **can** | can | little doubt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the Buddhist version | the earliest original form |  |  |  | of the story | 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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