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title: As the influence of his life and doctrines grew, a tendency arose to… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As the influence of his life and doctrines grew, a tendency arose to connect all the popular stories of India round the great teacher. Who acts: tendency. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 108

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As the influence of his life and doctrines grew, a tendency arose to connect all the popular stories of India round the great teacher.

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**Who acts:** tendency · **What happens:** grow, arise, connect · **To what, where:** popular stories

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tendency), 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:pg7128:29:108
# text = As the influence of his life and doctrines grew, a tendency arose to connect all the popular stories of India round the great teacher.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	doctrines	doctrine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tendency	tendency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	connect	connect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the influence of Gautama's life and doctrines | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arise** | past | a tendency |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **connect** | to-infinitive | a tendency *not said here* | all popular stories of India |  |  |  | round the great teacher | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |

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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:** «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.

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