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title: Benfey (_Einleitung zu Pantschatantra_, i. 190-91) suggests that thi… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Benfey (_Einleitung zu Pantschatantra_, i. 190-91) suggests that this class of accumulative story may be a sort of parody on the Indian stories, illustrating the moral, “what great events from small occasions rise.” Who acts: Benfey, class, great events. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph
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# English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 31

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Benfey (\_Einleitung zu Pantschatantra\_, i. 190-91) suggests that this class of accumulative story may be a sort of parody on the Indian stories, illustrating the moral, “what great events from small occasions rise.”

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**Who acts:** Benfey, class, great events · **What happens:** suggest, be, illustrate, rise · **To what, where:** sort, Indian stories, moral · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benfey, class, great events), 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:pg7439:66:31
# text = Benfey (_Einleitung zu Pantschatantra_, i. 190-91) suggests that this class of accumulative story may be a sort of parody on the Indian stories, illustrating the moral, “what great events from small occasions rise.”
1	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Einleitung	Einleitung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	zu	zu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	Pantschatantra	Pantschatantra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	nsubj	_	_
10	190-91	190-91	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	accumulative	accumulative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	parody	parody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	illustrating	illustrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	41	obj	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
41	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | Benfey |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | may | this class of accumulative story | a sort |  | the Indian stories |  | of parody | tree rules |
| 3 | **illustrate** | gerund | Benfey *not said here* | the moral |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moral=Destination |
| 4 | **rise** *in a quote* | present | great events from small occasions |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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