--- title: For this reason I have included a considerable number of them in thi… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: For this reason I have included a considerable number of them in this volume; and shall be surprised if tales that have roused the laughter and wonder of pious Buddhists for the last two thousand years, cannot produce the same effect on English children. Who acts: I, tales. A sentence of «Indian Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Joseph Jacobs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/) / 26 # Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 26 For this reason I have included a considerable number of them in this volume; and shall be surprised if tales that have roused the laughter and wonder of pious Buddhists for the last two thousand years, cannot produce the same effect on English children. **Who acts:** I, tales · **What happens:** include, be, rouse, not produce, wonder · **To what, where:** considerable number, volume, laughter, same effect, pious Buddhists 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 (I, tales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:3:26 # text = For this reason I have included a considerable number of them in this volume; and shall be surprised if tales that have roused the laughter and wonder of pious Buddhists for the last two thousand years, cannot produce the same effect on English children. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 included include VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 considerable considerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 volume volume NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 21 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 roused rouse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 pious pious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 Buddhists Buddhist PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 34 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 35 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 compound _ _ 36 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 produce produce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **include** | present · perfect | I | a considerable number of tales | | | | in this volume *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent number=Theme in volume=Goal | | 2 | **is** | shall | | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **rouse** | present · perfect | tales | the laughter and wonder of pious Buddhists | | | year | | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laughter=Patient | | 4 | **not** **produce** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | tales | the same effect | | | | on English children | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result | | 5 | **wonder** | | | pious Buddhists | | | | | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/27/) - ↑ back to [Joseph Jacobs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/3/)