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title: So far as the children of Europe have their fairy stories in common,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So far as the children of Europe have their fairy stories in common, these--and they form more than a third of the whole--are derived from India. Who acts: children. 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 18

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So far as the children of Europe have their fairy stories in common, these--and they form more than a third of the whole--are derived from India.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** have, form, derive · **To what, where:** fairy stories, more, India

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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 (children), 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:pg7128:3:18
# text = So far as the children of Europe have their fairy stories in common, these--and they form more than a third of the whole--are derived from India.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	obj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the children of Europe | children's fairy stories |  |  |  | far *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 2 | **form** | present | children *= child* | more |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme |
| 3 | **derive** | present · passive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  | India |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from india=Material |

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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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