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title: Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same i… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. Who acts: Soils, fairy tales. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 13

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Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

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**Who acts:** Soils, fairy tales · **What happens:** differ, be · **To what, where:** plot

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soils, fairy tales), 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:pg7128:3:13
# text = Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
1	Soils	soil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	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 | **differ** | present | Soils and national characters |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | fairy tales |  |  | plot and incidents |  | same *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:** «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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