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title: Even so far as the materials already collected go, a large number of… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 34

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Even so far as the materials already collected go, a large number of the commonest incidents in European folk-tales have been found in India.

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**Who acts:** materials · **What happens:** be, collect, find · **To what, where:** large number, 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 (materials), 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:pg7128:3:34
# text = Even so far as the materials already collected go, a large number of the commonest incidents in European folk-tales have been found in India.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	already	already	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	commonest	common	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as the materials; far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **collect** | past | the materials *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | present · perfect · passive |  | a large number of the commonest incidents in European folk tales |  | India |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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