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title: There can be little doubt that the version is ultimately to be trace… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There can be little doubt that the version is ultimately to be traced back to the Odyssey. Who acts: little doubt. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXI. the Blinded Giant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXI. the Blinded Giant, sentence 9

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There can be little doubt that the version is ultimately to be traced back to the Odyssey.

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**Who acts:** little doubt · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** version

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXI. the Blinded Giant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little doubt), 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:pg14241:52:9
# text = There can be little doubt that the version is ultimately to be traced back to the Odyssey.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Odyssey	Odyssey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | can | little doubt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present · passive | little doubt *not said here* | the version |  |  |  | trace, ultimately *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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