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title: The choice of the hero disguised as a menial is also common property… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The choice of the hero disguised as a menial is also common property of Indian and European fairy tales: see Stokes, _l. c._, p. 231, and my List of Incidents (_s. v._ "Menial Disguise.") Who acts: choice, my. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead.,
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead., sentence 7

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The choice of the hero disguised as a menial is also common property of Indian and European fairy tales: see Stokes, \_l. c.\_, p. 231, and my List of Incidents (\_s. v.\_ "Menial Disguise.")

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**Who acts:** choice, my · **What happens:** disguise, be, see, list · **To what, where:** hero, common property, Stokes, Incidents

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (choice, my), 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:pg7128:53:7
# text = The choice of the hero disguised as a menial is also common property of Indian and European fairy tales: see Stokes, _l. c._, p. 231, and my List of Incidents (_s. v._ "Menial Disguise.")
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	menial	menial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	Stokes	stoke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	l.	l.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	c.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
30	231	231	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	List	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	_	_	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	s.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	v.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	44	punct	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Menial	menial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	Disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disguise** | participle |  | the hero *not said here* |  |  |  | as a menial | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the choice of the hero | common property |  |  |  | of Indian fairy tales | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive |  | Stokes  p. |  |  |  | my List of Incidents \_ s. v. *obl*; Menial Disguise *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stoke=Stimulus |
| 4 | **list** |  | my | Incidents \_ s. v. |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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