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title: _--The themes of love by mirror, and the faithful friend, are common… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The themes of love by mirror, and the faithful friend, are common European, though the calm attempt at poisoning is perhaps characteristically Indian, and reads like a page from Mr. Kipling. Who acts: themes, calm attempt. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. the Ivory Palac
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXVI. the Ivory Palace., sentence 11

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\_--The themes of love by mirror, and the faithful friend, are common European, though the calm attempt at poisoning is perhaps characteristically Indian, and reads like a page from Mr. Kipling.

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**Who acts:** themes, calm attempt · **What happens:** be, read

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. the Ivory Palace.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (themes, calm attempt), 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:pg7128:57:11
# text = _--The themes of love by mirror, and the faithful friend, are common European, though the calm attempt at poisoning is perhaps characteristically Indian, and reads like a page from Mr. Kipling.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	themes	theme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	poisoning	poisoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	characteristically	characteristically	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:desc	_	_
37	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the themes of love by mirror and the faithful friend |  |  |  |  | european *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the calm attempt at poisoning |  |  |  |  | characteristically, indian, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like a page from Kipling  Mr. | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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