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title: This could be easily effected owing to the wide spread of the belief… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This could be easily effected owing to the wide spread of the belief in metempsychosis. 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 clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 109

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This could be easily effected owing to the wide spread of the belief in metempsychosis.

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**What happens:** affect, owe, spread · **To what, where:** This, wide spread, belief

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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: 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:pg7128:29:109
# text = This could be easily effected owing to the wide spread of the belief in metempsychosis.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	effected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	metempsychosis	metempsychosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | could · passive |  | This |  |  |  | easily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **owe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to the wide spread of the belief in metempsychosis *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to spread=Goal |
| 3 | **spread** |  |  | the belief in metempsychosis |  |  |  |  | nom spread «event transitive»: of=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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