--- title: He wrote in 1859, before the great outburst of folk-tale collection… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He wrote in 1859, before the great outburst of folk-tale collection in Europe, and he had not thus adequate materials to go about in determining the extent of Indian influence on the popular mind of Europe. Who acts: introduction, adequate materials. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (introduction, adequate materials), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:30:38 # text = He wrote in 1859, before the great outburst of folk-tale collection in Europe, and he had not thus adequate materials to go about in determining the extent of Indian influence on the popular mind of Europe. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 1859 1859 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 before before ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 outburst outburst NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 collection collection NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 22 thus thus ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 adequate adequate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 materials material NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 in in SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 determining determine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 extent extent NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 influence influence NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | introduction | | | 1859 | before the great outburst of folk tale collection in Europe | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1859=Destination | | 2 | **have** | past | introduction | adequate materials | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go about** | to-infinitive | adequate materials *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **determine** | gerund | adequate materials *not said here* | the extent of Indian influence | | the popular mind of Europe | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extent=Topic | | 5 | **extend** | | | Indian influence | | | | | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **mind** | | | Europe | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/30/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/30/39/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/30/)