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title: Tales_, ii. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tales_, ii. 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 8

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Tales\_, ii.

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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: 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:pg7128:45:8
# text = Tales_, ii.
1	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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