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title: The sixth chapter of Mr. Smeaton's book on them is devoted to "Fires… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sixth chapter of Mr. Smeaton's book on them is devoted to "Fireside Stories," and is entirely taken up with adventures of the Hare, all of which can be parallelled from _Uncle Remus_. Who acts: Fireside Stories. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 23

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The sixth chapter of Mr. Smeaton's book on them is devoted to "Fireside Stories," and is entirely taken up with adventures of the Hare, all of which can be parallelled from \_Uncle Remus\_.

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**Who acts:** Fireside Stories · **What happens:** devote, take up, parallell, adventure · **To what, where:** sixth chapter, all, Hare

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fireside Stories), 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:pg7128:56:23
# text = The sixth chapter of Mr. Smeaton's book on them is devoted to "Fireside Stories," and is entirely taken up with adventures of the Hare, all of which can be parallelled from _Uncle Remus_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Smeaton	Smeaton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Fireside	Fireside	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Stories	Story	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nmod	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	parallelled	parallell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	Remus	Remus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devote** | present · passive | Fireside Stories | the sixth chapter of Smeaton book on Karens |  |  |  |  | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **take up** | present · passive | Fireside Stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with adventures of the Hare; entirely *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **parallell** | can · passive |  | all |  |  |  | from Uncle | tree rules |
| 4 | **adventure** |  |  | the Hare |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: 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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