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title: Even with Fables, or beast-tales, this could be done, for the Hindoo… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Even with Fables, or beast-tales, this could be done, for the Hindoos were Darwinists long before Darwin, and regarded beasts as cousins of men and stages of development in the progress of the soul through the ages. Who acts: Hindoos, Fables, soul. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 111

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Even with Fables, or beast-tales, this could be done, for the Hindoos were Darwinists long before Darwin, and regarded beasts as cousins of men and stages of development in the progress of the soul through the ages.

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**Who acts:** Hindoos, Fables, soul · **What happens:** do, be, regard, progress · **To what, where:** this, beasts, progress

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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 (Hindoos, Fables, soul), 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:pg7128:29:111
# text = Even with Fables, or beast-tales, this could be done, for the Hindoos were Darwinists long before Darwin, and regarded beasts as cousins of men and stages of development in the progress of the soul through the ages.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Fables	Fable	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Hindoos	Hindoo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	Darwinists	darwinist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
26	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	stages	stage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	development	development	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	through	through	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | could · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Hindoos |  |  |  | before Darwin | for Darwinists; long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **regard** | participle | Fables *not said here* | beasts |  | the progress of the soul | through the ages | as cousins of men and stages of development | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent beast=Theme as cousin=Value |
| 4 | **progress** |  | the soul |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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