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title: Why, they can moralise even the Tar Baby (see _infra_, Note on "Demo… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, they can moralise even the Tar Baby (see _infra_, Note on "Demon with the Matted Hair," No. xxv.). Who acts: Jatakas. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. a Lesson For Kings., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XVII. a Lesson For Kings., sentence 7

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Why, they can moralise even the Tar Baby (see \_infra\_, Note on "Demon with the Matted Hair," No. xxv.).

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**Who acts:** Jatakas · **What happens:** moralise, see, mat · **To what, where:** Tar Baby, infra · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. a Lesson For Kings.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jatakas), 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:pg7128:48:7
# text = Why, they can moralise even the Tar Baby (see _infra_, Note on "Demon with the Matted Hair," No. xxv.).
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	moralise	moralise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Tar	Tar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Baby	Baby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	infra	infra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Matted	mat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	Hair	Hair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
26	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	xxv	xxv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **moralise** | can | Jatakas *= jataka* | the Tar Baby |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive |  | infra |  |  |  | Note on Demon with the Matted Hair *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer infra=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mat** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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