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title: Mr. Kipling has a very similar tale in his _Life's Handicap_. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Kipling has a very similar tale in his _Life's Handicap_. Who acts: Kipling. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender., sentence 9

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Mr. Kipling has a very similar tale in his \_Life's Handicap\_.

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**Who acts:** Kipling · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** similar tale, Handicap

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. the Farmer and the Money-lender.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kipling), 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:pg7128:52:9
# text = Mr. Kipling has a very similar tale in his _Life's Handicap_.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Handicap	Handicap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Kipling  Mr. | a similar tale |  | Kipling's Handicap |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=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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