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title: Benfey, in an elaborate dissertation ("Die Kluge Dirne," in _Ausland… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Benfey, in an elaborate dissertation ("Die Kluge Dirne," in _Ausland_, 1859, Nos. 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 19

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Benfey, in an elaborate dissertation ("Die Kluge Dirne," in \_Ausland\_, 1859, Nos.

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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:pg7128:55:19
# text = Benfey, in an elaborate dissertation ("Die Kluge Dirne," in _Ausland_, 1859, Nos.
1	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	elaborate	elaborate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dissertation	dissertation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Die	Die	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Kluge	Kluge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	Dirne	Dirne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Ausland	Ausland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	1859	1859	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Nos	Nos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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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