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title: _--The latter part is the formula of the Clever Lass who guesses rid… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The latter part is the formula of the Clever Lass who guesses riddles. Who acts: latter part, formula. 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 5

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\_--The latter part is the formula of the Clever Lass who guesses riddles.

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**Who acts:** latter part, formula · **What happens:** be, guess · **To what, where:** formula, riddles

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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: who acts (latter part, formula), 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:pg7128:55:5
# text = _--The latter part is the formula of the Clever Lass who guesses riddles.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	formula	formula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Clever	Clever	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Lass	Lass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	guesses	guess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	riddles	riddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the latter part | the formula |  |  |  | of the Clever Lass | tree rules |
| 2 | **guess** | present | the formula | riddles |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme |

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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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