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title: 1890), it is not surprising that we can at times trace portions of S… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 1890), it is not surprising that we can at times trace portions of Shakespeare back to India. Who acts: material. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 23

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1890), it is not surprising that we can at times trace portions of Shakespeare back to India.

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**Who acts:** material · **What happens:** not be, trace · **To what, where:** portions

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (material), 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:pg7128:30:23
# text = 1890), it is not surprising that we can at times trace portions of Shakespeare back to India.
1	1890	1890	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	surprising	surprising	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
13	trace	trace	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | material |  |  |  |  | 1890 *obl*; surprising *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **trace** | can | material *not said here* | portions of Shakespeare |  |  | time |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Theme |

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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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