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title: So much for a short sketch of Indian folk-tales so far as they have… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So much for a short sketch of Indian folk-tales so far as they have been reduced to writing in the native literature. Who acts: short sketch. 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 32

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So much for a short sketch of Indian folk-tales so far as they have been reduced to writing in the native literature.

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**Who acts:** short sketch · **What happens:** reduce · **To what, where:** tales, native literature

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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 (short sketch), 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:pg7128:30:32
# text = So much for a short sketch of Indian folk-tales so far as they have been reduced to writing in the native literature.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sketch	sketch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reduce** | present · perfect · passive | a short sketch of Indian folk tales *not said here* | tales *= tale* |  | the native literature |  | to writing *goal*; far *property* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient to writing=Goal |

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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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