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title: _--Benfey has proved most ingeniously and conclusively (_Einl. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Benfey has proved most ingeniously and conclusively (_Einl. Who acts: _. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 17

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\_--Benfey has proved most ingeniously and conclusively (\_Einl.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** prove · **To what, where:** Einl

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_), 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:pg7128:46:17
# text = _--Benfey has proved most ingeniously and conclusively (_Einl.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	ingeniously	ingeniously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	conclusively	conclusively	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Einl	Einl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | present · perfect | \_ | Einl |  |  |  | ingeniously *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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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