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title: THE BOY WHO HAD A MOON ON HIS FOREHEAD AND A STAR ON HIS CHIN 156 — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE BOY WHO HAD A MOON ON HIS FOREHEAD AND A STAR ON HIS CHIN 156 Who acts: BOY. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender 152, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender 152, sentence 2

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THE BOY WHO HAD A MOON ON HIS FOREHEAD AND A STAR ON HIS CHIN 156

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**Who acts:** BOY · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** MOON, FOREHEAD

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender 152. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BOY), 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:pg7128:5:2
# text = THE BOY WHO HAD A MOON ON HIS FOREHEAD AND A STAR ON HIS CHIN 156
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	BOY	BOY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	WHO	WHO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	HAD	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	MOON	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	ON	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	FOREHEAD	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	STAR	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	ON	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	CHIN	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	156	156	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the BOY | a MOON |  | BOY's FOREHEAD and a STAR |  | on BOY's CHIN | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient |

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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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