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title: In particular, the majority of the Drolls or comic tales and jingles… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In particular, the majority of the Drolls or comic tales and jingles can be traced, without much difficulty, back to the Indian peninsula. 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 19

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In particular, the majority of the Drolls or comic tales and jingles can be traced, without much difficulty, back to the Indian peninsula.

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**What happens:** trace · **To what, where:** majority, particular

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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: 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:pg7128:3:19
# text = In particular, the majority of the Drolls or comic tales and jingles can be traced, without much difficulty, back to the Indian peninsula.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Drolls	Droll	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	comic	comic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	jingles	jingle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | can · passive |  | the majority of the Drolls or comic tales and jingles |  | particular |  | without much difficulty | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in particular=Destination |

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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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