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title: The chief points about them are--(1) though the tale does not exist… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief points about them are--(1) though the tale does not exist in either Phædrus or Babrius, it occurs in prose derivates from the Latin by Ademar, 65, and "Romulus," ii. Who acts: chief points, tale. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., with its de
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 7

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The chief points about them are--(1) though the tale does not exist in either Phædrus or Babrius, it occurs in prose derivates from the Latin by Ademar, 65, and "Romulus," ii.

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**Who acts:** chief points, tale · **What happens:** be, not exist, occur · **To what, where:** Phædrus, ii, prose derivates

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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 (chief points, tale), 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:pg7128:46:7
# text = The chief points about them are--(1) though the tale does not exist in either Phædrus or Babrius, it occurs in prose derivates from the Latin by Ademar, 65, and "Romulus," ii.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc:preconj	_	_
19	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Babrius	Babrius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	derivates	derivate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Ademar	Ademar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	65	65	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Romulus	Romulus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
41	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	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 | **does** | present | the chief points about Parallels |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **exist** | present · do-support | the tale |  |  | Phædrus or Babrius |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in phædrus=Location |
| 3 | **occur** | present | tale | ii |  | prose derivates |  | from the Latin; by Ademar | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in derivate=Location |

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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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