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title: Mr. Ralston introduced the volume with some remarks which dealt too… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Ralston introduced the volume with some remarks which dealt too much with sun-myths for present-day taste. Who acts: Ralston, remarks. 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 49

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Mr. Ralston introduced the volume with some remarks which dealt too much with sun-myths for present-day taste.

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**Who acts:** Ralston, remarks · **What happens:** introduce, deal · **To what, where:** volume, much

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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 (Ralston, remarks), 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:pg7128:30:49
# text = Mr. Ralston introduced the volume with some remarks which dealt too much with sun-myths for present-day taste.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Ralston	Ralston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dealt	deal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | past | Ralston  Mr. | the volume |  |  |  | with some remarks | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent volume=Patient with remark=Instrument |
| 2 | **deal** | past | some remarks | much |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=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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