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title: Köhler on Gonzenbach, _Sezil. — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Köhler on Gonzenbach, _Sezil. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed., sentence 12

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Köhler on Gonzenbach, \_Sezil.

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Why the Fish Laughed.. 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:pg7128:55:12
# text = Köhler on Gonzenbach, _Sezil.
1	Köhler	Köhler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Gonzenbach	Gonzenbach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Sezil	Sezil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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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