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title: Ellis, 5, whence it came into the modern Æsop. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ellis, 5, whence it came into the modern Æsop. Who acts: Ellis. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin., sentence 13

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Ellis, 5, whence it came into the modern Æsop.

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**Who acts:** Ellis · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** modern Æsop

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XX. the Ass in the Lion's Skin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ellis), 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:pg7128:51:13
# text = Ellis, 5, whence it came into the modern Æsop.
1	Ellis	Ellis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Ellis |  |  | the modern Æsop |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into æsop=Initial\_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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