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title: It is not too much to say that this analysis marks an onward step in… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not too much to say that this analysis marks an onward step in the scientific study of the folk-tale: there is such a thing, derided as it may be. Who acts: value, analysis. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, with its dependency tree and
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 53

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It is not too much to say that this analysis marks an onward step in the scientific study of the folk-tale: there is such a thing, derided as it may be.

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**Who acts:** value, analysis · **What happens:** not be, say, mark, be, deride, study · **To what, where:** onward step, scientific study, much thing, folk tale · **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 (value, analysis), 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:pg7128:30:53
# text = It is not too much to say that this analysis marks an onward step in the scientific study of the folk-tale: there is such a thing, derided as it may be.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	analysis	analysis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	marks	mark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	onward	onward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	29	det:predet	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	derided	deride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | value |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **mark** | present | this analysis | a onward step |  | the scientific study of the folk tale |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme in study=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | such much thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **deride** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **study** |  |  | the folk tale |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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