--- title: _--Mr. Gomme is of opinion that the tale arose from certain rhyming… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: _--Mr. Gomme is of opinion that the tale arose from certain rhyming formulæ occurring in the Gaelic and Latin tales as written on a mallet left by the old man in the box opened after his death. Who acts: Gomme, tale, certain rhyming formulæ, opinion. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jaco --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/) / 12 # Indian Fairy Tales, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., sentence 12 \_--Mr. Gomme is of opinion that the tale arose from certain rhyming formulæ occurring in the Gaelic and Latin tales as written on a mallet left by the old man in the box opened after his death. **Who acts:** Gomme, tale, certain rhyming formulæ, opinion · **What happens:** be, arise, rhyme, occur, write, leave · **To what, where:** certain rhyming formulæ, Gaelic tales, mallet, box This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gomme, tale, certain rhyming formulæ, opinion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:59:12 # text = _--Mr. Gomme is of opinion that the tale arose from certain rhyming formulæ occurring in the Gaelic and Latin tales as written on a mallet left by the old man in the box opened after his death. 1 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 -- -- PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:desc _ _ 4 Gomme Gomme PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 rhyming rhyme VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 15 formulæ formulæ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 occurring occur VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 Gaelic gaelic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 Latin Latin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 mallet mallet NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 37 after after ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Gomme Mr. | | | | | of opinion | tree rules | | 2 | **arise** | past | the tale | | | certain rhyming formulæ | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rhyme** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **occur** | gerund | certain rhyming formulæ *not said here* | | | the Gaelic tales | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tale=Location | | 5 | **write** | participle | | the Gaelic tales *not said here* | | a mallet | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on mallet=Destination | | 6 | **leave** | participle | | a mallet *not said here* | | | | in the box *result*; by the old man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in box=Result | | 7 | **open** | past | opinion | | | | after opinion's death | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **die** | | opinion | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/13/) - ↑ back to [XXVIII. 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