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title: There is scarcely any doubt that the so-called FABLES OF BIDPAI were… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is scarcely any doubt that the so-called FABLES OF BIDPAI were thus derived from Buddhistic sources. Who acts: doubt. 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 3

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There is scarcely any doubt that the so-called FABLES OF BIDPAI were thus derived from Buddhistic sources.

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**Who acts:** doubt · **What happens:** be, call, derive · **To what, where:** FABLES, Buddhistic sources · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (doubt), 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:pg7128:30:3
# text = There is scarcely any doubt that the so-called FABLES OF BIDPAI were thus derived from Buddhistic sources.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
11	FABLES	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	BIDPAI	BIDPAI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Buddhistic	Buddhistic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | any doubt |  |  | there |  | scarcely *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the FABLES of BIDPAI *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **derive** | past · passive | any doubt *not said here* | the FABLES of BIDPAI |  | Buddhistic sources |  | thus *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from source=Material |

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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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