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title: _--Miss Frere observes that she has not altered the traditional mode… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Miss Frere observes that she has not altered the traditional mode of the Moon's conveyance of dinner to her mother the Star, though it must, she fears, impair the value of the story as a moral lesson in the eyes of all instructors of youth. Who acts: _, Miss, Moon. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tal
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXVII. Sun, Moon, and Wind., sentence 5

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\_--Miss Frere observes that she has not altered the traditional mode of the Moon's conveyance of dinner to her mother the Star, though it must, she fears, impair the value of the story as a moral lesson in the eyes of all instructors of youth.

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**Who acts:** \_, Miss, Moon · **What happens:** observe, not alter, fear, impair, convey, value · **To what, where:** traditional mode, value, dinner, story

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVII. Sun, Moon, and Wind.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_, Miss, Moon), 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:pg7128:58:5
# text = _--Miss Frere observes that she has not altered the traditional mode of the Moon's conveyance of dinner to her mother the Star, though it must, she fears, impair the value of the story as a moral lesson in the eyes of all instructors of youth.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Frere	Frere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	observes	observe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	conveyance	conveyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	fears	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	impair	impair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	det	_	_
49	instructors	instructor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | present | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **alter** | present · perfect | Miss | the traditional mode of the Moon's conveyance of dinner to Miss's mother |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mode=Patient |
| 3 | **fear** | present | Miss |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **impair** | infinitive | Miss *not said here* | the value of the story |  |  |  | as a moral lesson in the eyes of all instructors of youth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus value=Experiencer |
| 5 | **convey** |  | the Moon | dinner |  |  |  | to Miss's mother | nom conveyance «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient to=obl |
| 6 | **value** |  |  | the story |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition 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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