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title: _ my _Æsop_, Av. iv. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ my _Æsop_, Av. iv. 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 9

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\_ my \_Æsop\_, Av. iv.

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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: 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:pg7128:51:9
# text = _ my _Æsop_, Av. iv.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Av	Av	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	iv	iv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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