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title: Though Indian fairy tales are the earliest in existence, yet they ar… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Though Indian fairy tales are the earliest in existence, yet they are also from another point of view the youngest. Who acts: Indian fairy tales, 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 30

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Though Indian fairy tales are the earliest in existence, yet they are also from another point of view the youngest.

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**Who acts:** Indian fairy tales, tales · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** existence, point

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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 (Indian fairy tales, 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:pg7128:3:30
# text = Though Indian fairy tales are the earliest in existence, yet they are also from another point of view the youngest.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Indian fairy tales |  |  | existence |  | early *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | tales *= tale* |  |  | another point |  | of view | 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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