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title: _Parallels_.--“Jonah rings” have been put together by Mr. Clouston i… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--“Jonah rings” have been put together by Mr. Clouston in his _Popular Tales_, i. 398, &c.: the most famous are those of Polycrates, of Solomon, and the Sanskrit drama of “Sakuntala,” the plot of which turns upon such a ring. Who acts: Clouston, Sanskrit drama. A sentence of «English Fai
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXV. the Fish and the Ring., sentence 3

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\_Parallels\_.--“Jonah rings” have been put together by Mr. Clouston in his \_Popular Tales\_, i. 398, &c.: the most famous are those of Polycrates, of Solomon, and the Sanskrit drama of “Sakuntala,” the plot of which turns upon such a ring.

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**Who acts:** Clouston, Sanskrit drama · **What happens:** put together, be, turn · **To what, where:** Parallels, those, ring

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXV. the Fish and the Ring.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clouston, Sanskrit drama), 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:pg7439:85:3
# text = _Parallels_.--“Jonah rings” have been put together by Mr. Clouston in his _Popular Tales_, i. 398, &c.: the most famous are those of Polycrates, of Solomon, and the Sanskrit drama of “Sakuntala,” the plot of which turns upon such a ring.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Jonah	Jonah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Clouston	Clouston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
24	398	398	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	c.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Polycrates	Polycrates	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Sanskrit	Sanskrit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	Sakuntala	Sakuntala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nmod	_	_
53	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
54	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	57	det:predet	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put together** | present · perfect · passive | Clouston  Mr. in Clouston's Popular Tales | Parallels |  |  |  | c. *obl*; together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | those |  |  |  | of Polycrates | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | present | the Sanskrit drama of Sakuntala |  |  | such ring |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon ring=Trajectory |

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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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