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title: So close is the resemblance, indeed, that it is impossible not to su… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So close is the resemblance, indeed, that it is impossible not to surmise an historical relation between the two. 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 136

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So close is the resemblance, indeed, that it is impossible not to surmise an historical relation between the two.

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**What happens:** be, not surmise · **To what, where:** close resemblance, historical relation

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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:pg7128:29:136
# text = So close is the resemblance, indeed, that it is impossible not to surmise an historical relation between the two.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	surmise	surmise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	csubj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the close resemblance |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **surmise** | to-infinitive |  | a historical relation |  |  |  | between the two | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent relation=Eventuality |

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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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