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title: I have reduced the pieces of advice to three, and curtailed somewhat. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have reduced the pieces of advice to three, and curtailed somewhat. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIV. Lac of Rupees., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XIV. Lac of Rupees., sentence 4

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I have reduced the pieces of advice to three, and curtailed somewhat.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** reduce, curtail · **To what, where:** pieces, three

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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 (I), 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:pg7128:45:4
# text = I have reduced the pieces of advice to three, and curtailed somewhat.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	curtailed	curtail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reduce** | present · perfect | I | the pieces of advice |  |  |  | to three *goal* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer piece=Patient to three=Goal |
| 2 | **curtail** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | somewhat *property* | 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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