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title: It is curious that a very similar “run” is added by Bengali women at… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is curious that a very similar “run” is added by Bengali women at the end of every folk-tale they tell (Lal Behari Day, _Folk Tales of Bengal_, Pref. Who acts: iv, Bengali women, Woman. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIV. Cat and Mouse., with its dependency tree and the p
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXIV. Cat and Mouse., sentence 3

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It is curious that a very similar “run” is added by Bengali women at the end of every folk-tale they tell (Lal Behari Day, \_Folk Tales of Bengal\_, Pref.

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**Who acts:** iv, Bengali women, Woman · **What happens:** be, add, tell · **To what, where:** similar run, end, Folk Tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIV. Cat and Mouse.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (iv, Bengali women, Woman), 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:pg7439:84:3
# text = It is curious that a very similar “run” is added by Bengali women at the end of every folk-tale they tell (Lal Behari Day, _Folk Tales of Bengal_, Pref.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Bengali	Bengali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
21	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Lal	Lal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	Behari	Behari	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Folk	folk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Pref	Pref	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | iv |  |  |  |  | curious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Bengali women | a similar run |  |  | at the end of every folk tale |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Woman |  | Folk Tales of Bengal  Pref |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |

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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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